Hemarthria, | CXLIV. GRAMINEZ. 511 
ed hooked at the extremity, or in southern Xon espe- 
cially towards the end of the spike, terminating in ather long 
dsl aha hook. In the pedicellate spikelet the mois of the outer 
glume is often longer finer and straight, but occasionally that also is 
hooked and more rarely the 2ud glume ends in a small hook.—47. 
oed = Br. l. c., Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 107; Brongn. in Duperr. 
Voy. Bot. t. 15. 
Queensland. Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, Bailey Yi on 
0 Bianesy ; ; Dawson River, F. Mueller ; = in Leichhardt s collec 
Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls and presi "Sieber, n, 88; 
Hastings and Clarence Rivers, Beckier, rni; 
Victoria. Yarra, Ovens and Upper nee Rivers, Dandenong Ranges and 
gi other localities, F. Mueller Pe othe 
mania. rin oe nt River, R. Brown ; ^ Motkbeka Coasts of the Island, Gunn ; 
South. dos C. Stu 
eared PAER and near Adelaide, F. Muelle 
wW. rem ommon abont Swan River an = King "George's Sound, Fraser, 
A, emen Drummond, n. 152, 385, and othe: 
The hook at the end of the glumes, apon which beet pr cc pd his. = at 
from the H. compressa, is exceedingly variable. In the ns gen 
ve 
very near to, if it be not identical with, the south Mediterranean H. 
fasciculata, Kunth. 
20. MANISURIS, Swartz. 
Spikelets in dmt in the 1-sided notches of en artieulate háchis ofa 
simple spike, 1 sessile and half embedded in a cavity on the rhachis 
y . 
concave, thin but rigid, 8rd and 4th small thin and hyaline. Palea 
none (or very minute ?). “ae distinct. Grain enclosed in the hard 
outer glumes, free from them 
The genus is now generally reduced to the single species, widely spread over the 
Warmer regions of the New and the Old World. 
1. M. granularis, Sw.; Kunth, Enum. i. 469.—A branching leafy 
annual of 1 f more, s sprinkled or villous with spreading hn» , tho 
on the separate pataas as ves as or longer than the e ob the 
Ne pin forming an irregular leafy panicle. Spikes mostly 
about lin. long. Spikelets se scarcely more than line diameter, the 
Prominent grain-like hard and pitted outer glumes alone conspicuous, 
