CoLENSO. — On neio Phcunogainic Plants. 107 



keels ; tips membranous, jagged ; the outer very narrow and 

 finely acuminate, the inner and larger one sub-aristate. 

 ^lowering glume ovate, 1-nerved, aristate ; awn 3^ lines 

 long, three times the length of spikelet, scabrid, flexuous 

 xind straight. Pale linear-oblong, tip obtuse, jagged. Sta- 

 men 1, short; anther narrow oblong, emarginate, cordate. 

 Grain 1 line long, lanceolate, trmicate. 



Hub. Edges of streamlets in woods south of Dannevirke, 

 County of Waipawa, flowering in February ; 1887-88 : W. G. 



Obs. This is a truly elegant grass ; and when it is found 

 growing in large tufts among small ferns, in rather open spots 

 on the borders of the streams, with a rich profusion of 

 numerous gracefully-pendulous panicles, purple and glisten- 

 ing in the sun, it is a most striking object — one sure to rivet 

 the attention of the privileged beholder. It differs in several 

 characters from the other only known indigenous species of 

 this genus, A. arundinacea, Hook, f., and is a far more hand- 

 some plant. 



Genus 14. Agrostis, Linn. 



1. (?) A. striata, sp. nov. 



A small slender erect glabrous annual grass, 5in.-6in. 

 high ; stems with 3-4 distant nodes. Leaves few, on stems 

 l-|-in. long, g^oin. wide, striate ; margins minutely scaberulous 

 {suh lente) ; ligule long, narrow, sub-acute, erect, hyaline, 

 jagged at tip. Panicle erect, open, free, 3in. long, rhomboid 

 in outline, distantly whorled, the lowermost having 5 unequal 

 capillary rigid flexuous branchlets, the largest being lim. 

 long and whorled about the centre, all minutely scaberulous ; 

 each branchlet usually bearing 2 distant spikelets ; pedicels 

 much thickened at base of spikelet, that of the lower spikelet 

 short, of the upper long. Spikelets x^n. long, membranous, 

 whitish, shining ; the two empty glumes nearly alike, much 

 spreading, sub-liuear-lanceolate, acuminate, very acute, tips 

 purple, nerveless, but with many longitudinal minutely zig- 

 zagged purple strife forming linear cells, scabrid on back and 

 at margins which are hyaline. Flowering glume small, 

 oblong, sub-truncate, -^-^in. long, striate, 3-nerved, greenish, 

 hairy, awned, a small lateral tuft of hairs on each side near 

 base ; tips laciniate, jagged, and very hairy with long spread- 

 ing hairs ; awn short, stout, coarsely scabrid, springing from 

 one of the lateral nerves a little way down the back. Anthers 

 oblong, truncate, emarginate. Grain ^ line long, sub-oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, narrower at apex, turgid, shining, pale 

 ochraceous. 



Hab. High lands in the interior near Lake Waikare, 

 County of Wairoa ; 1888 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. This curious little mountain species is widely different 



