Danthonia.} CXLIV. GRAMINES. 591 
Propia few, in a very short panicle. deis of Me 
wering glumes not longer than the bas . 3. D. carphoides, 
Secr. IIl. Eudanthonia.—-Flowering glume ovoid or oblong at the base, scarcely 
Din, ciliate at least at the base. Awn longer than the lateral lobes. 
uated eer Ripe s numerous.  Hairs of the 
g glume marginal and scattered or in longi- 
tudinal A n ^ the back; lateral lobes acute or 
cely awne 
| be rather dense ' Flow glumes very "small, 
with copious jm bene Van lobes Aiti short with 
long awns, Leaves long and fi 
Panicle narrow or Le ders Hover id UA es ; oblong, 
with long marginal cilia but very few hairs on the 
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. D. pallida. 
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D. longifolia, 
ack. 
Stems ees 3 to 5 ft. high. eg long, with long 
loose she aths. Panicle bra tc P 
Stems doder 2 ft. high. pinea rrow. Panicle re- 
a single raceme or rd lower pidio 
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D. robusta. 
. D. racemosa. 
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Stems under 2 t. high. Leaves very narrow. Panicle 
ense 8, D. Pilosa. 
Panicle e or rather loose. "Flowering glumes oblong, 
ring of long hairs at or below the base of the 
orum plies not much exceeding the u€— Leaves 
narrow but not setaceous 9. D. semiannularis. 
Outer glumes much longer than the ‘spikelet. Leaves 
very fine in aru radical t ir 
ved small, few-flowered. Flowering glumes ciliate 
lon; ng hairs, the a piga not lon t r than 
the base. Small Alpine plant . > . . ll D. paucifiora. 
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. D. setacea. 
Plinthanthesis Urvillei and P. tenuior, Steud. thay Glum. from ve Blue 
Mo untains, Durville, are probes amongst the plants we hav urs I cannot recog- 
nise them from Steudel's chara "Thes may be ill- dealeibad species of reise 
but the twisted awn said to be pride to the side of the upper valvula (palea) 
unknown in Graminew, and probably a mistake. 
N I. MrcngaTHERA.—Panicle very loose. Spikelets nearly 
oe Awn of the flowering glume very short. 
. D. Peers , R. Br. Prod. 177.—Stems 2 to 3 ft. And Leaves 
lo g and narrow, i endi us. kae very loose, * to 4 in. Jong: with 
the base, broad, shortly nerved, unawned. Cent sn awn rece ex g 
them, a nid abe flattened and brown at n base as in other species, 
but rarely long enough to show any twis 
Wales. pon Jackson, R. Brown. The almost glabrous — have 
N. S, 
Beh the appearance of those of a Poa, but the structure is vn that of a short- 
awned Danthonia. ; 
