Dichelachne.] OXLIV. GRAMINEX. | 575 
lines long, not nearly so crowded as in that species-——Agrostis sciurea, 
Prod. 171; Sieb. Agrostoth. n._63; Muehlenbergia ciurea, 
Trin. ion. Unifl. 193 ; Agrostis rara, Nees in Sieb. 1, e. n. 70 ; Dich- 
elachne Sieberiana and D. vul aris, Trin. an Ru upr. Gram. Stip. 2, 3; 
D. montana, Endl. Prod. Fl. Norf. 20 (from the character as revised by 
Trinius, Gram. Stip. 1). 
ei S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown and others; New England, C. 
uart 
Victoria. Loddon River and Wilson’s promontory, F. Mue 
bcm mania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; abundant riri the island, J. D. 
W. Austr alia? Drummond, n. 964, may possibly be this species, but more 
eed one of the poorer forms of D. eri inita, which approach it very 
Tn rara, R. Br. Prod. 171, from Port Jackson, appears to me to be a slight 
variety of D. seiurea with a ded panicle and and fewer spikelets. 
x. setifolia. p slender, with almost filiform leaves, the sheaths scabrous.— 
Paramatta, Wool 
The species is also in New Zealand, and in Norfolk Manna (Hb ORA 
Pxdiiher « S ibes the awn as terminal between the two terminal 
glume, but Trinius who saw Bauer's original specimen describes it as datos 
54. AGROSTIS, Linn. partly. 
(Agrostis and Trichodium, Nees.) 
Spikelets small, 1-flowered, pedicellate in a loose spreading or nar- 
Tow panicle, the rhachis of the spikelet articulate above the outer 
The genus as now limited is still very gone Mid hu = ce one and 
Some warmer regions of both hainlapbioson Of the four 
is introduced only, another is also in New Zealand, a third : appe ars to be identical 
with a common North American one, the 4th alone is "strictly end 
Palea about half the length of the glume samedi 
No awn . l. A. alla. 
Palea none or rudimentary (Trich odium). 
No awn. Outer glumes above 1 line long. Panicle 
narrow . 2. A. Muelleri. 
Noawn. Outer glumes about i line. Panicle spreading 3. A. scabra. 
Awn nearly basal. Outer ao about 1 line, Panicle 
sprea ding . ae . . 4, A. venusta, 
