580 CXLIV. GRAMINER. [ Deyeucia. 
le to retain. Brown, whilst À 
of! the rers to the New Zealand ee thought nevertheless that it might be dis- 
tinct and gave it the name of A. em ula 1, but already (though not to the knowledgé z 
bilis, a t 
means of comparison, entered both emula and retrofracta as Australian species of 
Deyeuxia distinct from the New Zealand one. s it has now been found necessary 
to reunite the Australian with Forster’s plant, it necessarily merges in the n 
F. iae steri, nor can I see any advantage in the entirely new “name proposed by 
ler. 
3. D. Drummondiana, Benth.—Stems erect, 1 to 2 ft. high, leafy 
to the panicle, the leaves narrow with rather broad sheaths as in 
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laci 
umes narrow, at least 3 lines long and tapering into long 
points almost awned, the lowest rather shorter than the other. 
Flowering glume about 1 line long, hairy, shortly soe unequally 4- 
toothed, the awn fixed about the middle of the back, twisted and 
projecting beyond the outer glumes. Paleasmalland fiat Rhachis 
produced into a short ciliate bristle Mo concealed by the hairs 
surrounding the glume.—Dichelachne Drummondiana, Steud. 
Glum. i. 120, 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 371. 
. Billardieri, Kunth, Enum. i. 244.—Stems sometimes very 
Tree and tufted, usually about l ft. high or more, leafy to the F 
florescence, which is usually enclosed at the base in the broad sheath o 
sometimes much smaller, with long capillary divided branches in regular 
whorls. Outer glumes very narrow an inted, about 3 lines long. 
Flowering glume not half so long, quite glabrous, 
e E r and narrow. " 
produced into a hairy bristle.— Arena Hlforis Labill. Pl. Nov. B 
1. 24, t. 31; Agrostis vod R Br. Prod. 171; Hook. f. 
Tasm. ii. 115, 
N. S. Wales. s. Port Jackson, R. Brown ; Clarence oe Wileor. 
-Wictoria. Portland, A//i£ ; Port Phillip, Har 
emm d ; King's Island, Neate. 
ehr. 
Klo di New Zealand. This is evidently the lant figured by dene. 
although 1 his herbarium contained also the D. Forst iens 
: D. plebeia, Benth.—A slender tufted erect grass of 6 to 1 10 in 
spparenty annual, Leaves very narrow, almost filiform. Panicl 
w but loose, 2 to 4 in. long, the filiform branches scattered or 
resi dor "muss erect orslightly spreading. Outer glumes very narro 
3nd pointed, under 12 lineslong. Flowering a thin an 
