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Nowodworskya imberbis, Philippi. 



Nowodworskya imberbis, Philippi, Descr. Nuevas Plantas, 1873, p. 86. 



Juan Fernandez. Philippi. 



There is nothing in the collections examined answering to Philippi's description. 

 Nowodworskya is incorporated with Polypogon by Bentham and Hooker. 



Chaetotropis chilensis, Kuntli. 



Chaetotropis chilensis, Kuntli, Rev. Gram., i. p. 271, t. 47, et Enuni. PL, i. p. 231 ; Gay, Fl. Ch.il., vi. 



p. 303. 

 Polypogon chaetotropis, Trin. ; Steud., Grammes, p. 184. 

 Chaetotropis latifolia, Philippi in Linnaea, xxx. p. 205. 



Juan Fernandez. — In wet pastures — Bertero ; Scolder; Cuming; Douglas. 



Also in Chili, but apparently rare, for in the Kew Herbarium there is only Philippi's 

 Chcetotrojiis latifolia, certainly from the mainland ; a specimen labelled " Chili, Gay," 

 may be from Juan Fernandez, as some of his plants thus labelled are known to be ; yet the 

 original Cliatotropis chilensis is recorded from " Concepcion Islands " by Kuntli and 

 D'Urville. Gay merely repeats this record without any remarks of his own. Philippi's 

 proposed new species from Ilque, near Puerto Montt, does not seem to deserve the rank 

 even of a variety, for the leaves of the Juan Fernandez specimens vary from two to six 

 lines in width ; and the inflorescence of Douglas's specimens, which were " four to six 

 feet high," is from eight to ten inches in length. 



Aira caryophyllea, Linn. 



Aim caryophyllea, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 1, p. 66 ; Kuntli, Enum. PL, i. p. 289 ; Eenth., Fl. Austr., vii. 

 p. 585 ; Gay, Fl. ChiL, vi. p. 333. 



Juan Fernandez. Moseley ; Reed. Masafuera. Germain. 



A native of Europe and the Mediterranean region, now naturalised in many other 

 countries. In the work cited above Mr Bentham says of this, " generally distributed over 

 the area of the genus," without stating whether he considers it indigenous in Australia 

 or not, though of Aira prcecox he says, "probably introduced only into Australia." 



Aira praecox, Linn. 



Aim prcecox, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. i, p. 65 ; Kunth, Enum. PL, i. p. 289 ; Benth., Fl. Austr., vii. p. 585. 



Juan Fernandez. Moseley. 



Doubtless introduced here as well as in America, and in all southern countries where 

 it exists. 



