Polypogon.] CXLIV. GRAMINE. 547 
World and has also been sent from America, but in many stations and pur in 
most of the Australian ones rather as an introduced weed. 
2. P. fugax, Nees in Steud. Syn. Glum i. 184—Apparently annual, 
glabrous, 1 to 2 4t. high, with the foliage of P. monspeliensis. Spikelike 
panicle dense, 3 to 4 in. long, larger and more distinctly branched 
than in P. monspeliensis, the sen it the awns and rather larger 
Ww. ihesteviti, Dr ummond ; Busselton, Pries. 
These specimens have been identified by Munro with the Indian ones described 
by Nees under the name of P. fugaz, they also closely resemble some South American 
Specimens of P. interru uptus, B. ei K. id can scarcely be considered as a 
Short-awned variety of P. ; monspeliensis, and perhaps come near rer to the s imilarly 
short-awned P, Zi alis, Sm. The latter is however usually a éclat with a 
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Specimen from Ravenswood in Tasmania, in Herb. F. Mueller, is very near the ‘true 
P. littoralis, but is probably only an introduced weed. 
3. P. tenellus, R. Br. Prod, 173. —Apparently stia decumbent 
at the ag ascending from 6 in. to near 2 ft. but usually much more 
slender than B. ncaa tiene the spikelike aai narrower, not 
80 dense, rarely 2 in. long. Outer glumes in the typical form scarcely 
above 1 lin e long, narrow, entire, ciliate or villous on the keel 
margins, tapering into fine straight awns of 2 to 4 lines, the hairs of the 
Pedicel round the base of the spikelet more prominent than in P. 
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the ong as, those of the outer glumes, busted in the lower part, bent about 
middle, Palea very narrow. Stam 
Ww. ente . Hag George's Sound, R. Brown; Gordon River, Oldfield. 
vie labrous 
Spikelets rese larger, often n intr or g : 
thee t tho ta tuft o of [e airs ei on e base. Awn of the flowering glume more 
W.. * alo LM rok as ilie outer a ne^ Droas, Steud, Syn Glum. i. 184,— 
a, Drummond 4th, sale A. 1. 369. 
abiur Spikelike panicle pes fz ikelets small and villous or ciliate as 
a the e typi om form but the of à s «i fine s ther long, those of € outer glumes 
Oana ong as those of the role to es.—Murchison and Bowes Rivers, 
Teme II, Oxy YREX. t PERSE 1-flowered, unisexual, the two 
i165 in the same panicle. Glumes 3, the flowering one large, mem- 
k ile or hardened and enclosing the grain, the outer ones empty. 
> More or less united with 2 or 3 long feathery stigmas.—-. 
Y broad and often petiolate above the sheaths. 
