566 CXLIY. GRAMINE £. [Stipa. 
WV. Australia. King George's Sound, Barter ; Swan River, Drummond, lst coll., 
also n. 139, 958, 965; Carnac Island, Preiss, n. 1847 ; Murchison River, Oldfield. 
. S. micrantha, Cav.? R. Br. died. 175.—Stems a feet 
high, not stout but rigid, sometimes spreading or scrambling with the 
branches in dense clusters, sometimes fons and little- eerie: yr aves 
very slender, the sheaths often long and loos se, gl labrous. Panicle loose 
but often narrow, from r 6 in. “to above 1 tt. iong, with very nume- 
rous capillary labrous branches. Spikelets the smallest in the genus, 
pedicellate on the ultimate branches. Outer glumes linear, very thin, 
nearly equal, scarcely 1j lines long. Flowering glume shorter, nearly 
glabrous, on a very shor 1 and ciliate stipes, entire at the top, the awn 
. 
very slender, about i in. long. Palea not above $ Le rine x the 
105; Streptachne ramosissima, Trin. and Rupr. Gram. Stip. 7, who ee 
to it Urachne ramosissima, Trin. cosi Unifl. 173, there very insu 
ciently described. 
Que canland, Brisbane pet Bep; ; Dawson River, F. Mueller; Darling 
Downs, Leichhardt ; Warwick, Bec. Lives 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, Brown, Woolls and others; Clarence hiveT, 
Sr Wilecoz. 
appears to me probable that R. Brown was correct in identifying this plan x ii 
on = micrantha described and figured by Cavanilles Ic. v. 42, t. 467, althoug: with he 
recent botanists have thought that Cavanilles’ — on agreed better 
Somaru sciurea ; peats aue, however, adds to his plate a magnified ‘f dm 
ering glum e and awn which is wholly inapplicable to the Dichelachne, but v te) 
"d with the present lana) which is also well represented (in its rather ptt A 
by Cavanilles’ general figure. The awn is certainly articulate on the glum 
therefore not that of rn des 
slightly p ubescent. Lower leaves sometimes flat at the base, Mx 
otherwise convolute when dry, very narrow or almost subulate, oft 
ne in. 
a very short, not ciliate. le narrow nse, e 
to above 1 ft. long, the erect branches and pedicels glabrous. Ou 
glumes 4 to 6 lines long, acute. Flowering glume a ra 1 z 
iry stipes, at ines long, silky-hairy, the hyaline m em 
margins en a small y cu lobe or tooth on each side 0 
awn, often diffeult to diithiguic from the hairs. Awn usually ea 
cent, 12 in. long or more. Palea nearly as long as the glume, barry 
towards the top. ig Br. Prod. 175 ; Hook. f. Fl. esis: ii. 110. 
Victoria. Yarra Tode Port Phillip and Wilson's Promontory, F. Muir; 
French den, Beveri Neate. 
Labillard dière, Gunn ; Kent's Island, R. dre Kings M, j 
s. Australia. Adelaide, Blandowski ; Fowler's Bay, R 
