To 
Phalaris.] CXLIV. GRAMINE. 557 
S. pen St. Vincent's Gulf, Story. 
The s common in ka Mediterranean region and appears in some other 
airi pa mostly and per bape in a ea nly as introduced. Sibthorp’s figure 
of P. aquatica, Fl. Gree. t. 57, usually cited, after Parlatore, pes minor, Se he nts 
: perennial with a Me twice as "ad asany I have seen of P.a 
* 2. P. canariensis, Linn. ; Kunth, Enum. i. 31.—An annual like 
P. minor, but usually taller, the spikelike serio shorter broader and 
more ovoid. Spikelets mueh broader, the wings of the outer glumes 
E E Naturalised on the sea-shore at D Herb. F. Mueller. 
The plan 
probably a satis rd of S oath Europe or North Africa than of the uai 
Islands s, but it has a established as in so rod places, especially near the sea 
that it is difficult to indigenou 
* 46. ANTHOXANTHUM, Linn. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, narrow, pedicellate, crowded into a giae 
2 or spikelike panicle, the rhachis a ulate above the 2 outer 
glum Glumes 6, 2 outer acute, ed, 3rd and 4th shorter, 
empty, narrow, one with a small dorsal awn, the other with alonger awn 
free from much | 
erve or keel, enclosing the flower. No 2-nerved palea. Stamens 2. 
Styles distinet. Grain enclosed in the 2 upper glumes. 
The genus consists of a single species common in the temperate 4 of the 
northern hemisphere, and introduced into several parts of the southern 
A. odoratum, Linn.; Kunth, Enum. i. 38, ii. t. 8——A rather 
dis erect perennial, l to 2 ft. high, quite glabrous. Spikelike 
panicle 1$ to 2 in. long. Spikelets about 3 lines long, the outer 
glumes unequal, the 3rd and 4th usually quite included within them or 
rarely the longest awn slightly protruding.—Trin. Spec. Gram 
Reichb. Ie. Fl. Germ. t. 106. 
N. S. Wales Port Jackson, Wools. 
Tasmania. New No rfolk, Gunn ; Swanport, Story. 
A common meadow grass in Europe and northern Asi the sweet scent to 
hay. In Australia sil iri Prat at: only. dcs 
47. HIEROCHLOA, Gmel. 
(Disarrhenum, Labill.) 
re with 1 terminal piagam flower and 2 male flow 
1 idal o 
bel in a pyrami terminal panicle, the vicis 
