490 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Trisetum antarcticum, Trinius. 



New Zealand. Ascending to sub-alpine elevations. A perennial 

 lustrous grass, particularly fit for cool climes. According to Mr. 

 John Buchanan it keeps its ground well, becoming an important 

 element locally in the pasture-vegetation. The abundant natal 

 growth indicates, how easily this grass by dissemination could be 

 naturalised elsewhere. 



Tristania conferta, E. Brown. 



New South Wales and Queensland. A noble shady tree, attain- 

 ing a height of 180 feet [A. R. Crawford]. It is not only eligible 

 as an avenue-tree, but also as producing select timber; ribs of 

 vessels from this tree have lasted unimpaired thirty years and 

 more. Growth in height 20-30 feet at Port Phillip in twenty 

 years. 



Trithrinax Acanthocoma, Drude. 



Rio Grande do Sul, in dry elevations. A dwarf Fan-Palm for 

 window- or table-decoration, attaining only a height of about 6 feet; 

 foliage not leathery. As regards the use of many kinds of palms 

 the important work " Les Palmiers " by Count 0. Kerchove de 

 Denterghem (1878) should be consulted. 



Trithrinax Brasiliensis. Martins. 



.Rio Grande do Sul, Parama, Uruguay and Paraguay. A very 

 hardy palm, not tall. It is probably one of the species of this 

 genus, to which Mr. C. Napier Bell refers as very locally indigenous 

 on the plains of Southern Brazil and Northern Paraguay, where it 

 is called the " Botea." He mentions, that itis only about a dozen 

 feet high, and that the inhabitants of the provinces Sao Podro and 

 Sao Francisco make purposely journeys at the right season, to 

 obtain the berries, which have a taste between that of the Pine- 

 apple and Raspberry. 



Trithrinax campestris, Drude.* 



Argentina, as far south as 32 41 '. Heig'ht reaching about 30 

 feet. One of the most southern of all palms. Content with even 

 less humidity than Chamaerops humilis. The leaves are almost of 

 a woody hardness and stiff er than those of any other palm [Drude]. 

 Germination of seeds easy [Lorentz and Hieronymus]. Another 

 species occurs in Southern Bolivia. 



Triticum junceum, Linne. (Agropyron junceum, Beauvois.) 



Europe and North- Africa. A rigid coast-grass, with pungent 

 leaves and extensively creeping roots, requiring* sea-sand for its 

 permanent growth. One of the best grasses, to keep rolling sand- 

 ridges together, and particularly eligible, where cattle and other 

 domestic animals cannot readily be prevented from getting access. 



