Agrostis. | CXLIV. GRAMINER. 577 
with still finer leaves. Panicle loose with long capillary branches, 
or contracted in some of the smaller specimens. Outer glumes very 
acute, about 1 line long. Flowering glume shorter, broad hyaline and 
remarkably truncate, envelcping the : flow er, with a dorsal twisted awn, 
affixed very near the base and protruding beyond the outer glumes. 
Palea none.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ti. 113, t. 159 
Victoria. Mm Gr bd) Ballarat, Mrs. gape 
Tasmania. undant in dry grassy places, J. D er and others. 
W. Aus Modes Perongerup, F. Mueller ; i Bideo River Walcot. 
55. DEY EUXIA, Clarion. 
(Bromidium, Nees.) 
Spikelets 1-flowered, pedicellate or rarely sessile in a panicle either 
loose and spreading or narrow and spikelike, the rhachis of the spike- 
let articulate above the outer glumes, usually bearing a tuft of hairs 
nore th rarely short and ire or m n eficient. Palea de 
A oe genus, dem over the warmer and temperate regions both of the 
des andthe Old World. Of the fifteen Australian species three are also in New 
k : 
Té st C any 
Deyeuxia ‘they are longer, rt they are never so long asin poena ostis, : ee 
Pei allied both to Agrostis and to Deyeuxia, and equally re sig to 
to 
Species, is usual) poe not MIN in D. 4 
distinguished by iaa der the nam pr uma Cesari yen Her sten very am con- 
nected with other species where the peerage 
Owering glume very thin, almost hyaline, much shorter 
than the "x ones. 
P cute se and spreading or in smaller plants narrow. 
of the spikelot. produced into a hairy 
cme long, unawned. . . . . . 1, D. equata. 
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