556 CXLIV. GRAMINES. [ Alopecurus. 
above 1 line beyond them.—Reichh. Ie. Fl. Germ. t. 49; Hook. f. Fl. 
Tasm. ii. 109; s gsm Fragm. viii. 138 ; A. australis, Nees in Hook. 
Lond. Journ. i 
gig Doing: Nh , Law ; Ballandool River, Locker 
. Wales. In nterior, west of the Blue Mountains, Darling River, eto., 
A, 'Oumninyham Mitchell, Wools a nd others. : 
Wendu Vv. ale, Rober tson; Mitta-Mitta, F. Mueller; Wimmera, 
s 
SET 
Q 
SE 
Tasmania. Fo m Gunn. 
S. Australia. aa s and St. Vincent’s Gulfs to the Murray, F. Mueller 
(with longer awns than usual). 
re ea Bay, Oldfield. 
Common in aes temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, and as introduced 
eed in the southern hemisphere and in some places within the opis Perhaps 
iruly P aiea in Australia and New Zealand. 
45. PHALARIS, Linn. 
e 
cate, 3-nerved, the keel bordered by a scarious wing, the 3r and 4t 
small lanceolate or reduced to small bristles or one » deficient, the 5th 
smaller, complicate, very finely 5-nerved or apparently 4- nerved, the 
central nerve short and searcely conspicuous enveloping the 6th glume 
which is also wat ape enclosing the flower, apparently 2-nerved, 
the external angle between the nerves longitudinally ciliate. ; 
ordinary pain, [hee 3. Styles distinct. Grain enclosed in the 
upper glume 
A small genus, chiefly from the Mediterranean and neighbouring regions ae 
e DK s species are both northern, one of them certainly, the other possi y 
troduced into Australia. 
Wings of the outer glumes narrow and thin. Intermediate 
, small glumes reduced to a single small bristle . 1. P. minor. 
Wings of the outer glumes ru» road and white. Inter- — 
e glumes 
Josie more than 4 TOT, 
2. P. canarinsis. 
» Retz; Kunth, Enum. i. 32.—An erect glabrous | leafy 
akt tbe 
annual, of 1 to 3 Aor rather more, d upper leaf-sheaths loose, E 
ligula rather large and scarious. Spikelike panicle very dense an 
- Melbourne, Adamson. vil 
tisanas Coal River, Oldfield ; Swanport, Story ; Launceston, Hannaforé- 
