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them was one from Tasmania bearing the erect bracts of 

 this plant, but with the short stigmas and filaments and 

 interspersed stamens of the type. 



Trithuria jilnmentosa, n.s. Ccespitose and tufted, leaves 

 linear, acute pale green, 1 — 2 in. long. Scapes slender, 

 usually shorter than the leaves. Bracts 2 — 5 erect, en- 

 closing the flowers 2 — 2\ lines long. Stameus, usually 2, 

 confined to heads with but few carpels, filaments filiform 

 5 — 6 lines long, anthers linear obtuse, nearly 1 line long. 

 Carpels numerous in the purely female heads, stipitate, nearly 

 globose, angles obsolete, stigmatic branches mostly 4 — 6, 

 filiform 2 — 3 lines long. Fruit elliptical, hardly differing 

 from youug carpel. 



Common in niarsh at the head of Broad River, Field 

 Range. 



