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Mr. Fred Turner exhibited, from his herbarium, a series of 

 remarkably fine specimens, collected over a great part of New- 

 South Wales, comprising the typical species, var. tenidor, and 

 the various forms of Panicum flavidum Retz., including one that 

 Dr. Domin has recently described as a new species, under the 

 name of Panicum glohoideum. Bentham and Mueller, Flora 

 Austr., Vol. vii., p. 474, included this form under P . flavidum; 

 Mr. F. M. Bailey, C.M.G., F.L.S., Government Botanist, Queens- 

 land, does not regard it as specifically distinct, and the exhibitor 

 has long held the same opinion. Mr. Turner also showed his 

 original figures (Plates xi. and xii.) of the typical P. flavidum, 

 and its variety tenicio?', which were published in the Government 

 "Agricultural Gazette" (Vol. iv., Part 3, 1893). The form that 

 Dr. Domin regards as a new species has the same robust habit as 

 the typical P. flavidum, except when growing in damp situations, 

 when it is a little taller, identically dilated leaf-sheaths and acute 

 leaves, which are glabrous, glaucous, and striate, a short ciliate 

 ligula, a panicle of several short, somewhat distinct branches, 

 and a slightly dilated flexuous rhachis, sometimes ending in a 

 distinctly aristate point. The distinctly but shortly pedicellate 

 spikelets, to which Dr. Domin refers, are also a characteristic of 

 tery many of the specimens the exhibitor has examined of the 

 typical P. flavidum growing in New South Wales (vide the 

 dissectional drawings in PI. xi. referred to). In some of the 

 more robust forms, many of the spikelets are a little larger and 

 more or less globose than those in the typical species, and have 

 an additional nerve or two on each of the lower glumes, but there 

 are the same number of glumes, and a single, large, broad palea 

 in each spikelet. In order to avoid confusion in the identifi- 

 cation of this grass in the future, it might be recorded as P. 

 flavidum var. globoideum. Mr. Turner's first record of this grass 

 in New South Wales was made in the Official Catalogue (p. 441), 

 Indian and Colonial Exhibition, London, 1886. It is also 

 recorded in his botanical surveys of New England, The Darling, 

 and South-West and North-West New South Wales.* As 



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