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232 XCVII. AMARANTACEÆ. [ Trichinium. 
23. T. Stirlingii, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, under n. 98. A perennial 
with long procumbent or ascending simple or branched stems more or 
less clothed as well as the foliage with white crisped woolly hairs, 
sometimes dense especially on the lower part of the stems, sometimes 
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lumose with fine hairs, long in the lower half, shorter and not so dense 
igher up, the outer segments with broad dentate glabrous pink tips, 
e inner ones with narrower tips and long woolly hairs inside near the 
h i i o dila 
them 
acce dilated and the anthers imperfect. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; 
sgle slightly excentrical.—Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 297; 7: carneum, 
oq. l.c. 291. 
MERERI Fraser ; a river and Champion Bay, Old- 
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24. T. laxum, 
loosely branched stems, glabrous or sprinkled with a few short crisped 
hairs. eaves b 
dly ovate or obovate, obtuse or mucronate, the 
margins slightly i green and not thick, contracted into a short . 
petiole, sometimes above 1 in. long, : 
ginalar ovoid or at length shortly cylindrical, rather under 1 m. 
1ameter, all pedunculate in a loose leafy panicle. Bracts and bracteoles 
ovate or oblong, obtuse or scarcely mucronate, the midrib usually promi- 
resembling a thick pedicel but hollow, enclosing the stipes of the ovary; 
: : 2 : 
margins. Staminal cup very short and oblique, the two upper fi 
long, much dilated at the b n 
W. Australia. Between Cape Le Grand and Cape Paisley, Maxwell. 
: 20. T. axillare, F, Muell. Herb. A perennial with prostrate or ascend- 
mg branching stems of about 1 ft., the young shoots with white 
woolly hairs, otherwise glabrous. Leaves ovate or elliptical, very acute, 
