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fragrant, clover-like plant proved a good pasture-lierb. A 

 lithogram, illustrating this plant, occurs in the work on 

 the "Plants Indigenous to Victoria." Some of the many 

 European, Asian and African plants of this genus deserve 

 our local tests. 



Triphasia Aurantiola, Loureiro. 



South-East Asia. This shrub is worth cultivation for the 

 exquisite fragrance of its flowers. The fruits though small 

 are of pleasant sweetness. The plant may prove also adapted 

 for hedges. Glycosmis citrifolia (Lindley) and Claussena 

 punctata (Oliver), also both East Asiatic fruit-shrubs, may 

 possibly show themselves hardy in our sheltered forest- 

 regions. 



Tripsacum dactyloides, Linne. 



Central and North America. A reedy perennial grass, more 

 ornamental than utilitarian. It is the original Buffalo- 

 grass, and attains a height of seven feet, assuming the aspect 

 of Maize. It is of inferior value for fodder, but serves for 

 binding sand. The seeds are available for food. To T. 

 monostachyon belongs, according to Decaisne, the Teosinte or 

 Reana luxurians (Durien.) 



Tristania conferta, E. Brown. 



New South Wales and Queensland. A noble shady tree, 

 attaining a height of 150 feet. It is not only eligible as an 

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

 of vessels from this tree have lasted unimpaired thirty years 

 and more. 



Triticum junceum, Linne. 



Europe and North Africa. A rigid 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. 



Triticum vulgare, Yillars.* 



The "Wheat. Apparently arisen through culture from 

 ^gilops ovata (L.), and then a South European, North 

 African and Oriental plant. This is not the place to enter 

 into details about a plant universally known. It may there- 

 fore suffice merely to mention, that three primary varieties 

 must be distinguished between the very numerous sorts of 

 cultivated Wheat: 1. Yar. muticum, T. hybernum (L.), the 

 Winter Wheat or Unbearded Wheat ; 2. Yar. aristatum, 

 T. sestivum (L.), the Summer Wheat or Bearded Wheat; 

 3. Yar. adhserens, T. Spelta (L.), Wheat with fragile axis 



