Hierochloa.] CXLIV. GRAMINE. 559 
get», F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 48.— Cobberas and Munyang 
Mountains, F. Mueller. 
tso dense, usually only 2 to $ in. lon P ince edes M. Spikelets scarcely 
2 lines long, the glumes under the male s less cu 7 : diee but 
inserted near the apex of he wee; Free Hoo k. TAM SH. 
borealis, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. . 108, scarce = of Schrader, S aa g to H. Aniki by 
E f. Handb. N. Zeal. H. 322 and by F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 138.—Mount Wel- 
ngton, Fraser, un Mount Lapeyrouse, Gulliver ; Mount Field East, F. Mueller. 
This Mr RR to me to be closely connected with H. n: through the var. sub- 
mutica. Itis c rtainly near the northern H. borealis, but has not the loose dications te 
panicle nor the broader pat ti of that species. The Mesi n H. alpina differs 
still more in its small co mpact panicle and in the awns free peg much lower down 
on the male-flower glumes. All however are very near to each other 
2. H. rariflora, Hook. f. Fl. Ant. i. 93; Fl. Tasm. ii. 108. t. 157. 
T ns slender, branching, 2 to 3 ft. high. Leaves narrower than in 
H. redolens, tapering into long subulate points. Panicle loose and 
spreading, 2 to 3 in. long. Spikelets all on slender pedicels, often 
i coloure upper ones. uter persistent glumes broad, obtuse, the 
owest about 14 lines long, the 2nd rather larger and 3-nerved; inter- 
much narrower, keeled, but the lateral nerves scarcely visible.—F, 
Muell. Fragm. viii. 138. 
N.S. Wales. Té Bay, F. Mueller 
pee Nangatta nd bdo te Rock Mou 
8 Tas North of the Joerg ede : T Pauls River, C. Stuart ; 
wanport, § [We y; Bay of] Tees "Bissill 
The King George's Sound stati ion, given on theauthority of Baxter's specimen so 
marked in Herb. Hook. is venu a mistake. Baxter (— chiefly ides 
ucky Bay, and along the coast a little to the 
V specimens on the coast of Victoria, which got mixed with his cis litis in "de 
bm dealynation of King George’s Sound. 
bo rely a male flower above or 
elow, the rhachis of the spikelet usually atticutite above 2 outer per- 
celer empty glumes, either not continued beyond the solitary or 
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