Thysanotus. | CXXVII. LILIACER. 43 
unequal, but the 8 enn ones sometimes not much omofa the orhara 
—F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 69; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 886, but not 
the northern T. Banksii given as a synonym 
N.S. Wales. Between the gx and anon reni at Burkitt. 
Victoria. Murray River and Wimmera, F. Muel 
S. Australia. Around St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller 
T. humilis, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 22, appears to me to be the same species. It is 
described as having the stamens all equal, but in the flowers I examined three were 
decidedly longer. In some specimens the ne umbels were wanting, bu but in others 
there were three or four, as in the no orm. No specimen of the species 
is to be found in Brown’s herbarium, but h his character leaves no doubt as to its 
tity. 
ersoni, R. Br. Prod. 284.—Roots tuberous, oblong, 
ana and close to the stock. Radical leaves few and mostly reduced 
to a sheathing scarious scale with a short linear subulate blade and 
withering early, the specimens usually leafless are the small linear 
scales under the branches. Stems slender, wiry, twining, but generally 
low, intricately branched in the flowering part. Flowers solitary or very 
rarely 2 together on the ultimate branches or terminal peduncles, with a 
pair of small bracts at the articulation 1 to 2 lines below the perianth. 
Perianth-segments varying from 8 to 5 lines long. Stamens 6, 3 of them 
longer than the others, but in variable proportions. Capsule globular, 
2 to 83 lines diameter.—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 340; Hook. f. 
Tasm. ii. 54; F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 69; T. Menziesii, R. Br. 
Prod. 28 284 ; "T. Manglesianus, Kunth, Enum. iv. 616; Endl. in Pl. 
elss, 97. 
iyos S. Wales. Nangas, M‘Arthur; Lake George, Woolls; Paterson River, 
teary. 
Wendu Vale, eee Fic dien Allitt ; Port Phillip, Gunn ; Mel- 
bourne and Upper Tih, F. M: pss hers. 
orke Fotisuli, Fowler; St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller and 
others; Rivoli Bay, * Mueller. 
Creeping monent. grass, not uncommon in many parts of the island, 
mis 2 overlooked, J JDA 
many others. The _western ‘specimens have eae but n ot 'alwa aye larger flo owers 
than the eastern ones, but d otherwise differ. The twi 
to this species, slats slight tendency t to it in some exceptional Tars of T. dichoto- 
mus, which, however, has never tuberous roots. 
16. T. junceus, R. Br. Prod. 288.—Rhizome thick, horizontal when 
old, d fibrous roots without tubers. Radical leaves few, narrow- 
linear, short and soon withering away. Stems icine! loosely branched, 
erect or flexuose, 1 to 2 ft. high, bearing sometimes a short leaf near the . 
; and linear scarious scales under the branches. Umbels of 1 to 3 
flowers, terminal and sometimes 1 or 2 sessile along the branches lower 
down. Pedicels 3 to 6 lines long, or even longer when in arti- 
culation often close to the base. Perianth-segments 5 to 6 lines long. 
