bud 
Trichiniwm. | XCVII. AMARANTACER. 231 
Ptilotus erubescens, Schlecht. in Linnea, xx. 575; F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 
229; T. linifolium, A. Cunn.; Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 292. 
N. S. Wales. Barren rocky country W. of Wellington valley, A. Cunningham. 
Victori Grampians? Mitchell; Avoca river, F. Mueller; Skipton, Whan; 
Glenelg river, Robertson. 
Australia. Gawlertown, Behr. ; Lofty Range, Salt Creek, F. Mueller; Port 
Adelaide, Blandowski. 
SERIES 5. PoLycEPHALA.—Stems mostly branched or rarely some 
of them long decumbent and simple, glabrous or with oe woolly 
hairs, Spikes mostly globular, 2 to 1 in. diameter. Perianths straight 
s. 
l. T. divaricatum, Gaudich. in Freye. Voy. Bot. 445. A 
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Bracts and bracteoles 3 to 31 lines long, thinly scarious and shining, 
without prominent midribs, closely enveloping the erianths. Peria 
duce Champion Bay and Murchison river, Oldfield; Sharks Bay (gen 
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