558 CXLIV. GRAMINEJE. [ Hierochloa. | 
articulate above the 2 outer glumes. Glumes 6, thinly scarious, 2 outer 
acute keeled with a more or less distinct shouts nerve on each side, 3rd 
and 4th obtuse or emarginate, the keel sometimes produced into a short 
awn, each enclosing a narrow palea and 3 stamens, 5th shorter broad 
palea to the terminal flower. Stamens 2. Styles distinct. Grain 
enclosed in the 2 upper glumes. 
An Arctic and Antarctic genus common to the New and the Old World, gens 
into more temperate regions in Europe, South € the dae as and Y 
mountains. Ofthe two Motion species one has a wide Antarctic range, ds other 
is endemic, The species have all the sweet barant of PTET S 
Spikelets crowded on = branches of the panicle. Outer 
glumes as long as the male ones . 1. H. redolens. 
Spikelets all on n slender r pedicels. Outer glumes : shorter than ; 
he male ones . à ^ . 2. H. rariftora. 
1. H. redolens, R. Br. Prod. ~ (y —— d tufted, 
erect, branching, leafy, 2 to 3 ft. high. flat, rather rigid, 
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spikelike secondary panicles of 1 to 13 inet fe upper ones sessile, the 
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point.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 108 ; Holeus redolens, Forst. Prod. 92 ; 
Melica magellanica, Desv. in Lam. Diet. iv. 72; Disarrhenum en 
Ee Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 83, t. 232; Hierochloa antarctica, R om 
. 209; Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. b 23; Kunth, Rev. Gram. t. 209. 
Serena Common in the Australian Alps, F. Muelle MEE 
Pusan.” Tib Mouton (Mount We llington) P. Brown, Common in 
plaees throughout the island, J. D. Hooker and oth 
Also in New Zealand and Antarctic America, Among the several specific which 
Forster's is the oldest and was applied to the typical New Zealand plant, 
with the larger i 
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Var? submutica, F. Muell. Glumes all smaller and more obtuse, those under 
male flowers less ciliate and without am y or only mi nute rudimentary wns. wns—£. 
