486 CXLIV. GRAMINER. [ Panicum. 
em pi e the yolas .—Trin. ir . Gram. ii. t, 209; F. Muell. 
Gu: ensland. Wide and Moreton Bays, F F, Mueller, Leichhardt and others; 
Boodonton: O' Shanesy. z —Á— 
Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown and others ; Hunter's a vo rown ; 
Now England , C. Stuart ; rum ay River, Bechler ; Hastings a / 
" Various loc alities in eastern Gipps' Land, F. Mue : 
ar Ps ; Reus tall, with broad leaves 6 in. long, the lower bane " e 
nicle 4 in, and the spikelets above 1} lines long.— Queensland, c 
sore collections 
E strictum. Stems slender, rigid, much branched, with very short n inp 
ves, the panicle narrow, very littie denne hus epa enm sd p 8 
interrupted spike, ES stritu um, R. Br. ; Trin e" * 
ieb. Agrostoth. n. 71 and 90.— Port dubai R. gt at pue Pe 
Amidst all its Am which it metimes seems difficult to ar pu paced 
readily known by the dense pubescence of the fruiting glume w which ha bis 
Observed in any other SANG Some specimens se MES show that eis 7. p "en 
: —— an after-growth fr m plants “that have ned cut down genes 
ari e P. singulare, Stond. S yn. Glum. i. 60, from the ery given, 
es saecuits to the same speci 
35. P. Mikey: Benth.—À low decumbent grass 1 
scending branches of 6 to 8 in. Leaves very spreading, rather 
icle na erect, no / 
2 in. long. Spikelets very shortly pedicellate or almost sessile, 
ovoid, obtuse, uh der 1 line 1 g oti 
rather acute, 2nd and 3rd glumes nearly equal, — 2d 
5-nerved, both empty. , raro glume smooth and shling: "but ipP 
with a slight pubescen. 
Queensland. Moreton C. Stuart. F. Mueller thinks that this m eis 
variety of P. marginatum, but oy ides a demos 1 in habit and the pubescence oof 
the spikelets are m 
t 
leaves, uch smaller and the fruiting glumes quite glabrous exe? 
at the ti tip. 
k 
46. P. obseptum, Trin. Gram. Panic. vit ii. gon pus we 
glabrous grass, decumbent at the Se or creepin icle 
euy ascending. M aves narrow, the ligula a ring of cilia. E: an 
w and loose, 1 to 2 in, long, of he ligula a ring o arcely div! a 
Reise is. 
