546 ; CXLIV. GRAMINE, 
36. POLY POGON, Desf. 
back at or fili the middle, mall and bs or reduced t 
minute point. Palea rA "Styles short, distinct. Grain eidal 
in the slightly stiffened glume and palea, free from them 
A small genus, sag esu — sid on globe. Of the three Australian 
species two have a wide rate and subtropical regions of the 
Old World, although t their 1 bits sessi a well a ^ geographical are not yet 
pedic ver} cu 
and the general struc ure most rir that of Dévhétia, from which indeed 
M gon only differs in the fifi ccr dense and spikelike, not loosely panicu- 
Awns of the empty glumes 3 or 4 times as long as the 
glume, of the towering eens very short or none . . 1. P. monspeliensis. 
All the awns vu osi . P. fugaz. 
Awn of the g gl ume longer than those of t 
empty pi leapa twisted at the base and bent. iban 1 3. P. tenellus, 
P. simples, E Syst. Cur. Post. 30, said to be Australian on the authority cf 
Sieber’s Agrostoth eca n. 94, under the name of Pod oscemum, sp. n. Nees, is unknown 
to me, the very short diagnosis might apply to P. maritimus, De. and the specimen 
may ae An E It has been named Trichochloa simplex by Roem. and Schult. 
Syst. Addit. ad Mant. Cl. iii, 577, and Muehlenbergia roue d Kunth, Enum. i. 
208, fare bu authors have ned copist Sprengel’s diagnosi: 
eliensis, Desf. ; Kunth , Enum . 232. —An om 
a S. Wales. Port alga: Woolls ; Lord Howe’s Island, €. Moor tle 
ctoria. Port Phillip and Darebin Creek, F. Mueller ; Ballarat, esi; Li 
‘ives: Fullagar 
Tasmania. Laun unceston, Gunn ; Southport, C. Stuart ; Swanport, Story. 
S. Australia. Denier CN Mus pes * . 
W. Australia, Drv ys erlang ines, Oldfield. 
The species is common in most temperate and subtropical regions of the oN 
