— 
Trichinium. | XCVII. AMARANTACE. 237 
and $ to 1 in. diameter, of a yellowish hue. Bracts and bracteoles thin 
and shining, mostly acute, about 3 lines ong. Perianth 4 or 5 lin 
00. Xlll. 11, Fl. Tasm. i. 310, t. 94; Ptilotus spathulatus, 
Poir. Diet. Suppl. iv. 620; Trichinium mucronatum, Nees in Pl. Preiss. 
i 628; Mog. l.c. 288. 
Victoria. Murray and Avoca rivers, Dallachy, F. Mueller ; Melbourne, Harvey 
and others ; Skipton, Whan ; Little river, Fullagar. : 
zaman Derwent river, 2. Brown; abundant on dry plains near Ross, J. D. 
r, 
S. Australia. Enfield, Barossa and Lofty Ranges, F. Mueller (the specimens 
from the latter locality luxuriant with branching stems of nearly 1 ft.); Venus Bay, 
arlurion; Gawler Ranges, Sullivan. sir $ 
E Australia, Drummond, n. 428; Mount Brown, York district, Preiss, n. 1373; 
asse river, Mrs. Molloy, 
3%. T. pyramidatum, Mog. i» DC. Prod. xii. ii. 988. A small 
Plant probably perennial, with a tufted stock and ae or erect 
i ve lin. without the spike in our specimens, glabrous as 
i S s 
ogeth 
a ns but probably at length longer and cylindrical. Bracts and 
e 
Tacteoles broad, very thin, about 2 lines long, the bracteoles very o 
i idrib. Perian 
abrous.— Ptilotus pyramidatus, F. Muell. Fragm 
R Australia, Drummond, n. 99, 221. Perhaps a depauperated state of a species 
usually larger, et 
jii. ii 987. A perennial 
lab ll as the foliage or the young shoots 
"rinkled with a fe peara Bodit eaves obovate or oblong- 
Me, on long petioles, the stem-leaves few and 
r, ] 
ing larger in on 
the peri g je T j 1 ri 
anth an more conspicuous,  Periant about 5 lines long, the 
be about $ line long, the eae narrow, densely plumose outside 
