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measured such stems, and found them fully 5 ft. long, and often, 

 1 dare say, longer specimens oould be obtained. Those High 

 stems never seed, and when burnt their crackling is noticeable 

 and peculiar. The normal plant, growing in the open, seeds 

 very freely, not only in spring, but after early summer or early 

 autumn rains a second heavy crop is quickly produced. This 

 Worolana goes by the local name of " coast grass.'* but it grows 



Ereely sixteen miles inland at least, and at an elevation of over 



3,000ft. The Bishop of Waiapu informs me that Mioroloma 

 stipoxhs was the grass in full possession of the alluvial Povert] 

 Bay Hats, and that in a verv short time it was completely 

 dominated and subjugated — indeed, killed out— by English i\ 



grass. 



Mnrohvva avenocea prefers hill or ridge tops m fairly open 



bush, and though to some extent browsed upon by wild cattle 



it does not seem a very favourite grass. On newly fallen forest 

 country, especially during the first season, when thistles are too 

 t luck and high for stock, this grass thrives enoriuouslv. showing 

 that it can and does do well in the Open. T have measured 



seed-stalks ovei I it. long, and the whole plant presents then a 

 very handsome and statelv appearance. 



Hieroohloe redolens is worthy of a place among garden-plants 

 on account of its handsome appearance and long drooping 

 silver-grey seed-heads, and has. moreover, when touched, the 

 pleasant scent of sweet-vernal grass. It grows but sparingly 

 in the Tutira Block, but immediately beyond my west cm 

 boundary, and on country over 3,000ft. high, this Bpecies and 



Poa anoeps form over large areas by far the bulk of the heritage. 

 Ii seems to enjoy a certain amount of damp. 



A dry situation and some shade are necessarv to Echinopogon 



ovatus. It will thrive beneath open dumps of kowhai <>n dry 



ridges, on edges of barren cliffs and slips among the logs and 

 houghs of newly cleared bush land, but never in a sward. My 



local experience would lead me to put a verv low value on this 

 grass, both from its infrequenoy and straggling and habit, 



Deyeuxia Forsteri occurs verv rarely in Tutira. and from 

 its appearance 1 should think was a poor, useless species. Mr. 



Buchanan, however, in his " Manual of Indigenous Grasses," de- 

 clares it is greedily eaten by horses and oattle. It grows locally 



in the so.ikmg edges of waterfalls flowing over papa, or. rarely, 



on the edges of the lake 



Deyeuxia quadriseta will grow where no other grass can live, 



and appears on the most arid and sterile pumicoous land lands 



where even the manuka hardly survives and the fern is depauper- 

 ated. Its young leaves in such situations become quite brown 

 and ven remarkably scabrous. On better lands the leaves be- 



