Deyeuxia,} CXLIV. GRAMINEX. 583 
. D frigida, F. Muell.—Stems weak and general habit of D. 
Mere but usually taller, attaining sometimes 4 or 5 ft. Panicle as 
o 
hat species long a with scattered branches. Spikelets 
rather larger uter es very acute, 2 lines long or rather more. 
Flowering glume not much shorter, 5-nerved, nearly smooth or slightly 
scabrous in fruit, fine twisted awn attached a little above the 
middle and very deciduous, leaving usually on the fruiting glume à 
"en dorsal notch.——4grostis Pin F. Muell. Herb. 
Mount Buller, F. Mueller, the Fe ai roe pss flower showing only 
the persistent outer glumes, the very few acte ting glumes re hare pat e lost their 
wns only showing the dorsal notch ee the midrib halfwa 
At ono ery Oldfield ; New Norfolk, Gu 
12. D. scabra, Benth—Stems usually weak and decumbent, 1 to 
2 ft. long. Leaves flat, flaccid. Panicle loose, asthe: from 2 to 8 in., 
stiff in fruit and minutely soalyrosie-paboacetit, t the awn minute and 
straight, attached far above the middle and usually not exceeding the 
glume. Palea almost as long, rather broad.  Rhachis with few hairs 
and produced into a bristle minute and glabrous or longer and hairy.— 
Agrostis scabra, R. Br. Prod. 172; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 116, t. 160; 
. rudis, Reem. and Schult. Syst. ii. 360; Calamagrostis rudis; Steud. 
Syn. Glum. i. 192; A. contracta, F. Muell.; Herb. Hook. f. 1. c. t. 161 ; 
A, decipiens, R. Br. Prod. 172; Cinna d Kunth, Enum. i. i. 307. 
Queensland. Condamine dei Haritma 
= Fre oe Port Jackson, R. Brown ; "Now England, €. Stua 
Upper Hume River, Dandenong and Buffalo inui "Tyer's River, 
inii s Core F. Mueller. 
Cn asmania Adventure Bay, Nelson? in Herb, R. Br.; Upper Huon River, 
unn, 
northern spec imens have generally rather smaller spikelets than the southern 
ones, excepting Brown’s typical e in which they are smaller than in almost any of 
ours. I can Lec nothing to distinguish the A. contracta as a speci and 
Brown's A. d opan to me to be a slight ape wth narrow Topas 
distans, Kunze, raised from Australian seeds in the Leipzig 
Garden 
redd from. the very lid character given in Steud. Syn. hin. L 176, gU 
13. D. nivalis, Benth.—Stems rather stout, under 1 ft. high, 
Covered to the iaitovilettpe by the leaf-sheaths. Leaves flat short and 
road, rather stiff, crowded at the base of the stem. Panicle dense and 
Spikelike, 13 to 2 in. long, rather dark coloured, the short fine awns 
Scarcely isco Outer glumes under 2 lines long, very acute, 
rather rigid and shinihüg. Flowering glume rather npe sa 
but surrounded by the aya a y aT. short rhachis y stipes, the 
h e apex obtuse and e cely notched. wn slen nder, 
attached below the sud nri Shi arem but little Neca it. Palea 
