574 CXLIV. GRAMINE. [ Dichelachne. 
derum and not continued beyond the flower. Glumes 3, narrow, the 
2 outer ones persistent, membranous, acute, keeled. Flowering glume 
raised on a short hairy stipes (rhachis of the spikelet), membranous at 
the time of flowering, hyaline and entire or 2-lobed at the end, with a 
fine scarcely twisted dorsal awn a little below the end, ee hardened 
round the fruit. Palea 2-nerved. Stamens 3 or fewer; anthers gla- 
brous. PAER dash. Gsm enclosed in the ie pe palea, free 
m the 
z ed genus is probably limited to the two Australian species which extend to New 
e 
Panicle very dense, the awns above 1 in. long d. numerous bee 
and concealing the spikelets . 1. D. crinita. 
Panisle rather loose, the awns 6 to 8 lines long ll el po O 
ones rather oe with long s sheaths, Panicle very nia and spikelike, 
in. long, “the eil iut on the short erect barth but 
eet by the numerous long hairlike awns. Outer glumes ue 
lines long. Flo eee lame s e gla abrous s, the hyaline tip entire 
Prof. 
170; zo rain erinita, ‘Tein: A Unifi. 93 ; M. nici 
Nees in Hook. me Journ. ii, 414; Dichelachne ' Hookeriana, D. 
Forsteriana, D. comata and D. longiseta, Trin. and Rupr. Gram. Stip. 3 
to 5 (from the deser. a references) ; also Sieb. Agrostoth. n. 86, 
M greet Moreton vd corse ; Armidale, Perr al 
S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. B €. Moore and eni North of m s: 
A. ‘Cunningham y Howpestio, T i, ng, ides River, Beckler, C. Moore 
Howe’ s Island, C. a 
Victori hon ‘the Yarra to the western frontier, F. Mueller, Robertson am 
Dalrymple, R. Brown ; abundant throughout the island, J. D. 
V sema Uxor etnia others. 
S. Australia. Rou "nd e Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller, Behr. 
W. Australia. orge's Sound, R. Brown, to Swan and Murchison 
Rivers, Oldfield, pied n. 118, 130, 131, 380, and at 
The species is also in New Zealand. 
2. D. sciurea, Hook. f. Fl. N. Zel. i. 294, Fl. Tasm.ii. Bee 
158 A.—Stems densely tufted, slender, 1 to 14 rarely 2 2 ft. high, qui : 
ocu 
ong, the Shachi and filiform 
branches abea Oute mes very narrow, about t 23 lines Jong; 
the outermost me eae Bini t e 2nd. Fruiting glume pem 
more rigid erinita and stel? pitted-rugose. Awns 6 
