Tab. 



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HIEROCHLOA antarctica. 



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Panicula effusa, subnutante: dumis basi trinerviis. carina laevibus: floribus 



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p 



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masculis pubescentibus, dorso margineque ciliatis^ hermaplirodito submucronu 



lato; foliis planis. 



HierocUoa antarctica 



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Brown^ Prod, Flor, Nov,~HolL 



1, pag. 20 g 



Kun 



Enum. 1. p. 3y, 



Disarrenum antarcticum LabilL Nov.-HolL 2* p. 83. t.232. 



W 



j 



Holcus redolens Forst. Prod. no. 663. 



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Melica magellanica Desrouss. in Lam.EncycL 4. p. y2? 



Torresia redolens Rcem. et Schult. Sjst. 2. p. Si6. 



Torresia magellanica Beauv. Agrost. p. 63. Rcem et Schult. l 



Crescit in Nova-HoUandia^ Nova-Zeelandia et insulis Maclovianis 



Gramen Anthoxanthum odoratum redolens. Radix perennis^ fibris filiformibus, villosls, tar 

 dius glabratis. Culmi caespitosi, erecti, tripedales, simplices, teretes, striati, subtrlnodes no- 



dique 



labrl. Folia linearla, aplce angustato-acuta, rigida, sicca involuta, externe striata _, 



interne sulcata, glabra, pedalia et longiora. Vaginae teretes, usijue ad basim fissae, strlatae. 



glabrae, rlgida^j inferiores internodiis longiores ; superiores 6 



8 



s 



pollicares, internodiis 



breviores. Ligula ovata, obtusa, albida, membranacea, glabra, tardius lacera. Panicula e 



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summa vagina longe exserta, ramosa, ovato-oblonga, secunda, erecta^ ramis geminis (altero a 



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basi, altero duplo longlore, a medio splcullfero ) ramulisque filiformibus, laxis, teretibus, 

 glabris. Spiculae pedicellatae, obovatae, triflorae, vix quatuor Kneas longae; pedicellis hispidis , 

 cum spicula haud artlculatls. Flores duo inferiores masculi?, triandrl?, subsequales, basi, praeser- 



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tini ad dorsum, pills fuscescentibus striclis setuhformibus barbatl, sub apice aristati; alter 

 ( inferior ) subsessiUs; alter ( superlor ) pedicellatus; tertius summus i/3 minor, stipitatus, basi 

 callosus et imberbis, hermaphroditus, diander, mutlcus. Glumae duae, suboequales, flores 

 parum superantes , ovatae, angustato-acutae, membranaceae, stramineo-flavidae , subhyallnae, 

 nitidulae, glabrae, uninervlae, carlnatae y superior paulo longior^, basim versus ad utrumque latus 

 nervo abbreviato instructa. Flores mascuU : Paleae duaSj longitudine aequalesj inferior ovato- 

 elhptlca, subcarlnato-navicularis , acuta, sub aplce blfido arlstata , quinquenervla, nervls quatuor 



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lateraHbus apice evanescentibus, subchartacea, aplcemembranacea, fiisca, externe hispidulo- 

 scabra, ad ulrumque marginem induratum crassiusculum ciliis fuscescentibus rectis setullformi- 

 bus densls obslta 5 arlsta subulata, rectluscula, hispido-scabra,continua, palea sua Iriplo brevior. 

 Palea superior lanceolata , apice emarginato-bidentata, binervla, hyalino-membranacea , margi- 

 nibus inflexis bicarinataj carinis pilosiusculis. Squamulae duae, laterales, oblique ovato-lanceo- 



latae , glabrae, hyalinae. Stamina Flos hermaphroditus : Paleae duae j Inferiorsimilis illifloruni 



masculorum, sed minor et mutica, nonnlsi apicem versus hlspidulo-scabra, absolete septem- 

 nervia, haud ciliata; superior longitudine Inferiorls, oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, uninervia, ca- 



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