92 FLORA ANTARCTICA. [Auckland and 



basi sub barbatis infra apices trancatas aristatis marginibus longe dorsoque ciliatis, hermaphrodito obtuso 

 apice mueronato v. subaristato, foliis plaiiis glabriusculis, ligulis late ovatis obtusis. H. redolens, Brown, 

 Prodr. p. 209 (in observat.). Kunth Agrost. p. 37 (in part.). H. Banksiana, Encll. Bemerhmgen iiher die 

 Flora der Siidseeinseln, p. 156. no. 549. Holcus reddens, Sol. MSS. et Font. Prodr. no. 563. non Vahl. 

 Torresia redolens, Roem. et Schultes, vol. ii. p. 516. A. Cu?m. Prodr. Flor. Nov. Zel. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 

 Mag. vol. ii. p. 372. 



Hab. Campbell's Island; in marshy places near the sea; rare, not observed in Lord Auckland's group. 



Gramen perenne, plerumque elatum tri-quadripedale, in Insula Campbell vix bipedale, efespitosum, odore suavi. 

 Radices fasciculate?, intertextae, fibrosis ; fibris elongatis, 1-2-uncialibus, crassiusculis, crassitie penna? passerina?, de9- 

 cendentibus, duris, albidis, hie illic fibrillosis. Cidmi basi plus minusve elongati, inclinati v. prostrati, diametr. pennae 

 corvinae et ultra, rarius divisi, nodosi, cylindraeei, ad nodos fibrillosi, superne vaginis scariosis obtecti, interaodiis 

 sub i uncialibus, siqierne ascendentes, rarius erecti, basi coinpressi, foliosi, una ciun foliis i mic. diametr., profunde 

 striati, keves, nitidi, pallide virides, siccitate flavi, remote nodosi, ad nodos subgeniculati, nodis constrictis, 

 fusco-brunneis, opacis, interaodiis J—2 -uncialibus, superioribus 5-8 unc. longis. Folia plurima, culmo subrequi- 

 longa, basi longe vaginantia, infima stricta, abbreviata, superiora elongata, 1-2 pedalia, sub i unc. lata, erecto- 

 patentia, demum flexuosa, plana, superne involuta, lierbacea, v. subcoriacea, profunde striata, superne glaberrima, 

 laevia v. sub lente minutissime scaberula, nitida, la?te viridia, subtus glaucescentia scabriuscida. Vaginae 3-7 unc. 

 longa?, compressas, ad basin fissae, profunde striata;, glaberrima?, nitidae, virides, rnbro-purpureo pietae, ad margines 

 scariosa?, inferiores latiores, Mantes, basi purpurascentes, vemicosae ; bgula late ovata, obtusa, scariosa, integra v. 

 lacera. Panic/da gracilis, elongata, inclinata v. nutans, effusa, 6-10 unc. longa, sub 2 unc. lata, pallide flavo-fusca, 

 nitida ; radii striata, glaberrima ; ramis elongatis, gracillimis, angulatis, hie ilbc parce pilosis, inferioribus 2— t unc. 

 longis, nutaiitibus. Spicule pedicellatae, pedicellis spicula f brevioiibus, pilosis. Gluma bivalvis, membranaceo- 

 scariosa, glaberrima, nitida ; valves subaequales flosculis paido longiores v. aequilonga?, 2-3 lin. longae, acuminata?, 

 uervo medio tenui, dorso subdenticulato ; inferior uninervis v. rarissime basi nervia duobus lateralibus brevissimis ; 

 ■superior trinervis, nervis lateralibus medium vix attingentibus, inconspicuis, viridlbus. Floscidus inferior subses- 

 silis, intermedins tenninalisque pedicellati. Flosculi laterales. — Palea inferior ovato-oblonga, superne subtrun- 

 cata, cmarginata v. bifida, dorso aristata, quinquenervis, v. inaequilateralis et sexnervis, ad nervos angnlata, inferne 

 ciliato-subbarbata, superne pubescens v. pilosa, dorso brevissime ad maxginesque longe sericeo-cihata, ciliis margi- 

 uum rectis v. paulo eurvatis ; arista erecta, infra apicem inserta, gluma breviore, scabrida : Palea superior inferiore 

 paulo brevior, lineari-oblonga, bifida, bicarinata, carinis extus ciliatis. Stamina 3 ; filamentis breviusculis ; antlieris 

 elongatis, stramineis. Floscuiajs terminalis v. intermedius lateralibus i minor. Palea inferior ut in flosculis 

 lateralibus sed plerumque glaberrima, apice tautum puberula et dorso versus apicem ciliata ; arista brevi, infra 

 apicem inserta, hispida. Palea superior lineari-oblonga, concava, apice truncata, medio uninervis, v. rarius nervis 

 duobus, apiee extus nervoque dorso pubescentibus. Squamula 2, ovato-lanceolata?, acuminata?.. Stamina 2 ; fila- 

 mentis brevibus ; antlieris parvis. Ovarium oblongo-lanccolatiun, utriuque attenuatum. Styli basi coutigm, palea 

 bis longiores. Caryopm parva, cylindracea. 



The above described plant is very nearly allied both to the Hierocldoe antarctica, Br., and to the II. Magellaniea, 

 Pal. de Beauv., if indeed these three be truly distinct. When describing the first of them, Mr. Brown remarks, 

 " huic quam maxime affinis est Holcus redolens, Forst :" and he draws the chief distinction from the inner glume 

 of the latter being three-nerved and the cilia? on the margin of its lower florets being curved. In the Tasmanian 

 specimens of H. antarctica, which I have examined, I find that the upper glume is often furnished with two short 

 lateral nerves at the base, and in the New Zealand species (H. redolens) the cilia? alluded to are as often straight as 

 curved. Perhaps a more constant character between the plants of these two countries exists in the surface of the 

 leaves of the //. antarctica being decidedly scabrid, not only to the touch but under a moderate magnifying power, 

 its florets also are not so abruptly truncated ; I have not been able to detect any other points of difference. The South 



