Amarantus. | XCVII. AMARANTACER. 217 
perianth about j line long, the segments usually 4, rather broad but 
unequal, erect, acute. Fruit about as long as the perianth, tubercular- 
mgose, the pericarp very thin and scarcely separable from the seed. 
Styles 2 (or 3 ?).— Euxolus enervis, uell. Fragm. i. 1 
N. S. Wales. Murray and Darling rivers, Dallachy. 
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4. TRICHINIUM, R. Br. 
(Goniotriche, Turcz.; Hemisteirus and Arthrotrichum, F. Muell.) 
an thin and transparent; anthers 2-celled. Ov ulate. 
* simple, rigid, with a small capit oma. Fruit an indehiscent 
ining, nerve 
es limited to Australia, for the opposite-leaved T. Zeyheri from S. Africa, 
between the oquin, must be referred to Sericocoma, the presence or absence of scales 
i pne being by no means of absolute generic importance. 
3 i Poiret and F. Mueller under the 
really bette E i ey might perhaps be 
,j considered as sections of one genus ihan as two distinct ones, were it not 
fires, Confusion which would result in the nomenclature of spec 
‘ num 
the right of priority, both being of the same date, and "sapis — 
pecie: . Stoups they designate, and equally inappropriate for the combine 
E Wh es or Trichinium means “a clothing of hairs,” Pyilotus “having featherless 
Int FER 
he subdivision of the genus.I have been unable to establish any natural well- 
