540 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



assuming the aspect of maize. It seems of inferior value for feed, 

 but serves for binding sand. Prof. C. Mohr however regards it as 

 a valuable fodder-grass. The seeds are available for food. Howard, 

 speaking in Carolina of this grass, contends, that it may be cut 

 three or four times in a season, that it makes a coarse but nutritious 

 hay, and that the quantity of forage, which can be made from it, is 

 enormous ; cattle and horses are fond of it, and the hay can be 

 harvested easily. 



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, R. Brown. 



New South Wales and Queensland. A noble shady tree attaining 

 a height of 180 feet, with a clear trunk of 70 feet and a circum- 

 ference of 12J feet at 5 feet from the ground [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 O. Kerchove de 

 Denterghem (1878) should be consulted. 



Trithrinax Brasiliensis, Martius. 



Rio Grande do Sul, Panama, 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 it is only about a dozen 

 feet high, and that the inhabitants of the provinces Sao Pedro 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'. Height 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 



