570. CXLIV. GRAMINEX. [ Stipa. 
110; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 104; S. rudis, nee Syst. Cur. Post. 31; 
S.c oieisatà, Trin. and Rupr. Grain. Stip. 4 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson » bon Blue Mountains, A. Brown, Woolls and 
many others ; New England, €. Stu 
iti toria. Latrobe River, F. Hl. 
ania. Swanport, Story ; co n dry soil v oss 
T atraia, Duniak and Musing Fara, F. "Mul 
Var.? effusa, Panicle very loose and rather long. Mean mall Awns long 
ji "oed adir oaches S. scabra, to which it ought perhaps to M referred. 
alia. es ds beyond Arrowsmith River, where it covers 
the w i ces bein Mong 
S. pubinodis, Trin. and ie Gram. Stip. 50, from ‘aaa is referred ji Hooker 
to S. pubescens, although the outer glumes are described as all acute and entire, which 
is very rarely the case in S. pubescens. 
12. S. aristiglumis, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 43, Fragn. 
viii. 103.— Very nearly allied to S. pubescens, and should pr robably be 
added to its varieties. Habit and foliage the same. Panicle much looser, 
spikelets smaller, the outer glume usually produced into 1 to 3 fine points, 
the fruiting glume broader ; awn of S. pubescens but usually glabrous. 
Queensland. Brisbane River, Bailey ; Darling Downs, Woolis. : : 
N. S. Wales. Liverpool plains and Cassilis, Leichhardt ; Hunter's River, United 
States — ing Expedition. 
Vict Murray and Avoca Rivers, F. Mueller ; Wimmera, Wilson. 
13. S. eriopus, Benth—Bulblike stock and base of the lower 
dy dene woolly-villous, the rest of the plant glabrous or the leaves 
nutely pubescent. Stems slender, 1 to 1} ft. high. Leaves long, 
ieie, rigidly filiform, very flexuose, the upper ones with long appressed 
sheaths ; ligula very short, ciliate. "Panicle narrow and loose, 6 to 
in. long, with erect filiform branches. Outer ape narrow, We 
into fine points, the lowest often 9 or 10 lines long, the 2nd shorter. 
Flowering glume scarcely 3 lines long, slightly hairy, on a long stipes. 
Ju von rey eh posé 3 to 4in. long. Palea nearly as long 35 
the glu 
W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst coll. and n. 962. 
14. S. trichophylla, ZentA.— Stems slender, glabrous, 1 to 1$ » 
high. Leaves tufted at the base of the stem, short a and filiform, t 
— about $ in., the 2nd shorter. Awn ca capillary, under 2 in. long; 
brous or nearly so. Palea nearly as long as the glume. 
WV. Australia, Drummond, n. 122. 
. 15. S. scabra, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 31.—Stems in the 
