TO THE NEW-ZEALAND FLORA. 287 
Leaves deep green, subulate, acute, dilated into a broad membra- 
nous base, with a few short hairs at the back. Bracts suboppo- 
site, narrow. Flowers two, each invested by a semitransparent 
scale which nearly eguals the bract, and consisting of a single 
stamen and a single carpel. 
HIEROCHLOË ALPINA, Rem. $ Schultes, var. SUBMUTICA.—H. 
submutica, F. Mueller.—Danthonia Buchanani, J. Buchanan, 
Manual of Indigenous Grasses of New Zealand, p. 87, pl. xxxv., 
not of Hook. f—This form is intermediate between H. redolens 
and H. alpina; but is most closely related to the latter, The 
New-Zealand plant agrees with that of Victoria in habit, and 
especially in the lower glumes beiug scarcely ciliated, but the 
awns are usually longer. The panicle is more open than in 
H. alpina; the branches are longer and extremely slender, distant, 
usually drooping ; spikelets 3-6; leaves broad, flat. 
Common in mountain districts, especially on the west coast of 
the South Island. 
In ‘Flora Australiensis? Mr. Bentham unites H. redolens 
and H. alpina; and considers our plant a connecting form which 
may possibly prove worthy of specific rank. 
I fully agree with Mr. Buchanan in considering H. alpina di- 
stinct from the European H. borealis; but cannot understand his 
having mistaken our plant for a Danthonia, especially for D. Bu- 
chanani, which, independently of its generie and sectional distine- 
tive characters, is described as having a short contracted panicle 
and filiform leaves. 
Stipa MICRANTHA, R. Br.—Streptachne ramosissima, Trin. 
d Rup.—t have previously recorded the occurrence of this plant 
in the colony, and now add that it was originaliy discovered by 
Mr. W. T. L. Travers near Fox Hill in the Nelson district. 
Recently it has been found in great abundance in the Takaka 
ranges, Nelson, by the Rev. F. D. Spencer, who informs me that 
its culms attain several feet in length. 
It occurs in small quantity on the Miramar peninsula, near 
Wellington, and must be regarded as a relic of the indigenous 
vegetation of that locality, although 1 formerly considered it 
to be naturalized only. The culms are from 2 to 5 feet long, 
suberect or prostrate, much branched; the branches sometimes 
abbreviated, and forming rounded bunches at the nodes, some- 
times long and spreading. Panicle from 6" to 2' in length; 
branches numerous, capillary; spikelets small; outer glumes 
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