576 CXLIV. GRAMINEA. . [ Agrostis. 
*1. A. alba, Linz. ; ; Kunth, Enum. i. 219.-—A tufted perennial, from 
Panicle 
under 6 in. to above 1 ft. high. Leaves flat, narrow. -Panicle pyra- 
mida], sometimes rather and spreading, sometimes narrow and 
more dense. Spikelets very numerous. Outer glumes, narrow, keeled 
acute, about 1 line long. Flowering glume shorter, broad, obtuse or 
truncate, rolled round the flower, unawned. Palea very thin and 
mus about half as long as the glum 
mmon European grass, now said to be naturalised in a few stations in 
Victoria F. Mueller, and Tasmania, Story, C. Stuart, e a ord. 
purplish. Ootes im very pointed, about 13 lines long, glabrous 
or the keel minutely ciliate. Flowering glume much shorter, thin and 
hyaline, obtuse, enveloping the flower and grain, without any (or a 
minute and rudimentary?) palea. Stamens 3.—d. gelida, F. y fl 
in Trans. Vict. Inst. inn, 43, not of Trin.; 4. canina, var. Ho 
Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 3 
Victoria. Cobberas Mountains and Mount Kosciusko, at an elevation of 5000 to 
6000 ft. F. Mueller. 
Also on high mountains in New Zealand, 
A. — Willd. bed Pl. i. 370.—Stems slender, tufted, 6 
in. to above high. es BK narrow, almost filiform in the 
typieal form, ids at s SUR of the stem. Panicle yer ene very 
loose and slender, with spreading capillary branches. Outer glumes 
narrow, keeled, rather acute, about 3 line long. Flowering dips 
shorter, hyaline, broad and enveloping the flower, obtuse truncate 
slightly jagged, unawned. Palea none (or very minute ?). Stamens 3. 
—A. pa flora, R. Br. Prod. 170; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. ii. 113, t. 188; A. 
intricata, Nees in emus Lond. Journ. ii. 413; Zrichodium laxiflor e 
ich. Fl. ci Am. i. t. 8; Agrostis laxiflora, Richards ; Kunt 
Rev. Gram. 30. 
Tasmania. Adventure Bay, Herb. R. Brown ; common in shady places, J. D. 
Hooker, C. Stuart 
Var. elatior. Taller, leaves flatter and flaccid, panicle very loose and 
spreading. 
N. S. Wales. Nattai, Mrs. Calvert ; New England, C. Stuart Mueller; 
ictoria. Dandenong Banges, Broken River, sources ofthe Goulburn, F. it É 
Portland, Allitt. 
This has been identified by Munro with a common North American species whi 
wide range and has been published under various names, of which 
has a 
now's € the right of priority, except perhaps a very inappropriate one of 
4. A. venusta, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb pis 
slender tufted grass closely resembling the typical p or A. 8 
