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the top; the ligule very thin and membranaceous, rounded, 
or a little longer than broad. Panicle a span or more long, 
dense, so much so as to form a slightly interrupted (not 
continuous) spike, 11-9 inches broad, compressed, ob- 
tuse ;—the branches short, erect ; the rachis angled. Spikelet 
(or Locusta) composed of 3-4 florets, of a pale yellow-green 
colour. The calycine glumes are lanceolate, acuminate, longer 
than the spike of flowers, slightly keeled, shortly ciliated on 
the back, 3j lines long, the margins a little involute, and as 
well as the apex, membranous and transparent, the superior 
one a little longer than the other, 3-nerved, the nerves cili- 
ated. The lower glume or palea of the corolla is ovate, con- 
cave, compressed, sharply keeled, bluntly trifid at the apex, 
with the middle one of the three teeth the longest and some- 
what incurved and awl-shaped, 5-nerved: the lateral nerves 
above evanescent, the margins scariose, the keel and nerves 
ciliated ; the upper one much shorter than the lower, and 
with a double keel, 2-nerved, emarginate at the apex, except 
the nerves, which are ciliated and green. Hypogynous scales 
2, broadly obovate, obliquely 2-lobed, the lobes ovate, acute, 
their margins laciniated, they are membranous, transparent, 
and only a little shorter than the ovary. Stamens 3. 
Anthers pale yellow. Ovary nearly ovate, glabrous. Styles 
elongated, approximate at the base. Stigmas plumose, 
lax. Caryopsis, or fruit, elongato-ovate, or almost cylin- 
drical, slightly trigonous, of a pale yellow colour, and 
smooth." : 
References to the plate, and analysis of Dactylis cespitosa. 
Tas. IX, X. Fig. 1. spikelet of flowers, f. 2. single flower, 
f.3. Stamens, pistil and hypogynous scales, f. 4. one of the 
hypogynous scales, f. 5. pollen-granules :—more or less mag- 
nified. : 
The opinion of the writer of the foregoing description is, 
that with proper attention to its propagation and locality 
near the coast, and preservation. from being entirely eaten 
down where it already abounds, the Tussack Grass would, 
