Aristida. | CXLIV. GRAMINER. 563 
ell. 
; A. ramosa, Sieb, Agrostoth. n. 55; A. parviflora, inn Syn. 
Glum. i. 140 (from the char. given). 
Queen land, Brisbane —_ Moreton Bay, F. Mueller; Rockhampton, 
O'Shancay so mg — 
N.S. Wales. Port Jac "eat pi Brown, Woolls ; New England, C. Stuart, 
Var. gracillima. Stems long, slender and pem panicle filiform.—Cameroons 
Brush, Leichhardt ; Rockhampton, 0’ Shanes 
Var. compacta. Panicle short and ERU. but the spikelets and awns quite of 
A. vagans.— Warwick, Beker, 1 Nernst. 
7. A. sa, RH. Br. Prod, 173.— Xe nearly allied to A. caly- 
cina, and Sewn intermediate between that and 4. vagans. Panicle 
harrow, with erect or scarcely spreading branches and the outer glumes 
as long as the flowering ones or nearly so as in calycina, but 
spikelets much smaller, the glumes scarcely above 3 lines and the awns 
under $ in. long. 
Queen sland. Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. as qid c Rockhampton, 
O'Shanesy ; Herbert's Cree k, Seeman Darling Downs. 
Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Fite A, Cunni tmd 
New ‘England, C. Stuart ; Cirio River, Bechler ; also in piene dt's collection 
Var.? leptathera. Panicle spr ee awns 1 in. long, but the spikelets of 4. 
ramosa. Dry. Beef Creek, Leichhard 
Var. compacta. Panicle short and dense.—Gracemere, O’ Shanesys 
8. A. calycina, R. Br. Prod. 173.—Stems tufted, erect, 1 to 2 ft. 
high, Leaves very narrow, mostly subulate. anicle narrow , often 
on 6 in. long, "nd 2 short ed Senelies m. at length spread- 
Ing, each bearing 1 or 2 or the lower on ral but few sessile or 
shortly pe spikelets Spikelets i in the fero form 4 to 5 lines 
long without the a Outer glumes with fine points, the 2nd aslong 
as or itor than the ovo glume. Awns slender, sessile, 2 to 14 
in. long. Palea rather long. 
N. Australia. Upper Victoria p vos ens Port Darwin, Schultz, n. m 
Queensland. Keppel Bay, R. Bro rs River and Nerkool Creek, Bow 
man; Darling Downs, Law ; Peak Do owns, Burt 
N. S. Wales. Between the Darling and Creek, Neilson 
Central Australia. Near Alice Springs, ‘Giles OR a looser panicle). 
9. A. depressa, Retz; Kunth, Enum. i. 190.—A very variable 
Brass, distinguished by its arid ooet ec a and almost im- 
bricate alon ng the short erect branches of a narrow compact panicle. 
Stems in the Grapa lian specimens eiio or erect, above 1 ft. high. 
aves narrow, ending in subulate points. Panicle from 2 or 3 in. long 
and spikelike, to 6 or 8 in. and interrupted at the base. ne 
