Panicum. | CXLIV. GRAMINER. 489 
S. Australia. Ga wler UM Flinders Range, Torrens River, ete., F: Mihi : 
North of. Fowler s Bay, G 
. Australia. Taser’ 8 E Dempster. 
F. Mueller MN viii. i. refers the whole species to the Ncrth American P. 
capillare, Gronov., to whic certainly bears some general Pipini but yes 
species has as far as j^ iem E s a male flower in the 3rd glume, which 
never found in the Australian P. effusum, besides ids minor "iod nces. 
51. P. Mitchelli, Benth.—An erect grass, decumbent at the base 
only, 2 to 3 ft. high, nearly allied to P. effusum, but larger, quite glab- 
rous and the nodes not bearded. Leaves often long, the short ligula 
seid jagged than ciliate. Panicle usually very large and spreading 
very numerous divided filiform branches, the lower ones clustered 
âd rigid, t the upper ones scattered, Spikelets all Maiara usually 
several along the ultimate branches, rather above ine long, acutely 
acuminate, quite glabrous. Outer glume acute, b i the length of 
the spike let, l- to 8-nerved; 2nd and 3rd glumes nearly equal, 
acutely acuminate, about 5 hod. a palea in the 3rd sometimes very 
dr more frequently above $ the glume. Fruiting glume smooth and 
shining. 
Queensland. North-east Coast, 4. Cunningham ; Cape York, Daemel ; Port C 
Mole y; Rockingham Bay, Dallaehy ; Rockhampton, O Shanesy ; Warwick, 
UR 
s. Wales. Bogan River, Mitchell ; se, Campden, Macquarrie and Castle- 
oe Rivers, Woolls ; Clarence el Beckler 
maller glaucous pla nt with a smaller Vaf and rather € Vae, from 
Cooper 8 Creek, Howitt s Ex polities appears to be a aa of this spec 
F. Mueller, Fragm. x. 76, mentions P. incomptum, Trin., as having been gat thered by 
Daliachy at Rockingham Bay. I have not found a pei "Dalla chy's plants in Herb. 
F. ` al any spe 8 answering p those we € f P. incomptum from the 
Philippine Islands as well as from E. India, nor any $ seine h y F. Mueller, but it 
18 possible he may have intended to include in P. duoómphvi Dallachy" E — of 
- Mitchelli, which are allied to it but according to my views quite distin 
- decompositum, R. Br. Prod. 191.—A semi-aquatic VA GU 
ie often talland stout. Leaves mostly long, flat and rather broad 
especially when growing in water, narrow in drier situations; fils 
Very short and broad, ciliate. Y Pohoi 6 in. to 1 ft. long or even more, 
me merous crowded filiform divided branches, er o 
long, PCR of a nili straw colour. glume very short, broad 
truncate, thin and nerveless ; glumes nearl 
equal, aeute, thinly membranous, 5- or 7-nerved, the 3rd with a palea 
fr + its length but no stamens. rui me very sm 
g glu 
and shining.— P. proliferum, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 191, not of Lam. ; 
P. amabile, Balansa in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xix. 324, at least as to the 
- Australian plant referred to; P. levinode, Lindl. in Mitch. Three 
Exped. i. 238. i 
