233: The duck-bill was originally described under the name ofPlatypus anatinus, which was Anglicised into duck-billedplatypus White informs us, is one of the trees (for there areseveral, it seems, besides the Eucalyptus resinifera,mentioned in his Voyage, p. 284: It [Triodia] grows in tufts like large beehives, orpiles of thrift grass, and the leaves project out rigidly inall directions, just like Chevaux-de-frise. --Alien Song.