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THE LADIES MAGAZINE OF GARDENING, 
TRICHINIUM, R. Br. THE TRICHINIUM. 
Lin. Syst . Monadelphia Pentandria. Nat. Ord. Amaranthaceae. 
Generic Character . 1 —Flowers hermaphrodite, tribracteate. Perianth 5-cleft ; segments 
linear. Stamens 5, connate at the base ; filaments thread-like ; anthers 2-celled ; ovarium 
1-celled and seeded. Style simple; stigma capitate ; utricle with its one-seeded valve, 
conniving to the base of the segments of the perianth ; apex spreading, and surrounded with 
feathery hairs. Seed lenticular-reniform,testa-crustaceous„ Embryo annular, surrounded 
by a farinaceous albumen. Radicle centrifugal. 
Description, &c. —This vis a genus of curious Australian plants, the 
first species of which grown in Europe ( T . alopecuroideum ), was intro¬ 
duced in 1839. The genus is named Trichinium, which signifies composed 
of hairs, in allusion to the number of hairs found amongst the flowers. 
The species are all natives of South Western Australia, and they will all 
probably be half-hardy in British gardens. 
1.—TRICHINIUM MANGLE SI I, Lindl. CAPTAIN MANGLES 9 
TRICHINIUM. 
Engraving. —Our Jig. 2, in Plate 4. 
Specific Character. —Stem simple, ascending, furrowed. Leaves spathulate, acute, undu¬ 
lated, smooth. Head large, ovate ; bracteas linear-lanceolate, acuminate ; sepals grooved 
and serrulated at the apex, which is bald, but covered at the base densely with very fine 
woolly hairs; stamens with the cup entire, and very short. Style glabrous. 
Description, &c.— This is a most beautiful species. The flowers are 
quite glossy, and of a most beautiful pink at the tip, and silvery at 
the base. The head is very large, being generally three inches across. 
It is a half-hardy annual, which will flower freely in the open border; 
but which should be raised on a slight hotbed, and planted out in May, 
like Helichrysum macranthum. Nothing can exceed the beauty of the 
silvery plumage at the base of the flowers of this plant. 
ON RUSTIC WORK. 
BY THE EDITOR. 
There are few objects in garden scenery that afford greater oppor¬ 
tunities for the exercise of female taste than the designing of rustic work 
in garden scenery. The commonest materials, by the aid of skilful 
arrangement, may be so combined as to form highly ornamental objects. 
An old barrel or basket, a jar which has held grapes, or a tea-chest, may 
be converted by the magic hand of taste into a most elegant support for 
flowers. Perhaps no one ever carried this art farther, or produced a 
