592 CXLIV.. GRAMINES. [ Danthonia. 
Section II. MowacmaTHERA.—Paniele a raceme or very short. 
Flowering glumes with a broad obliquely turbinate hard base, 
ciliate with long oi the awn shorter or scarcely longer than the 
lobes, which are usually rigid. 
D. bipartita, F. u TOM i. 160.—Stems from an almost 
E us often woolly ba elt 2 Tt. high. Leaves flat but narrow, 
simple raceme of 3 kelets few, on short erect distant 
pedicels, or r thg Te, pedicels shortly Pu ow with 2 or 3 spikelets. 
r E Rer aceous, many-n TY to 8 lines long, tapering 
late, very acute, Ea $ to 4 lines long, the central awn scarcely 
longer. alea obtuse or truncate-—Monachather paradoxus, Steud. 
Syn. Glum. i. 2 
N. S. Wales. Darling River and thence to Mount Murchison, Dallachy, 
Woolls and others 
iá, Drum mond. _ These anari specimens are taller, with larger 
rim and fewer flowers th all appear to be referrible to one 
3. D. carphoides, F. Muell. Herb.—Stems from 3 or 4 in 
high. Leaves very narrow, not long, glabrous. Panicle ovate, ges 
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o in. long. Spikele ets few, very shortly podion Outer 
glumes 4 to 5 lines long, een road, with searious margins Flower- 
ing glumes 3 to 6, with a bro id oblique base as in D. bipartita, 
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the ring of hairs alge broka into clusters; lateral lobes shorter 
than the base, the very fine awn scarcely exceeding them, 
N. S. Wales. Macquarrie River, C. Moore; Armidale, Perrott ; Cavan near 
Yass, Mrs. Calvert. 
Victoria. Melbourne, Adamson. 
The icr from each locality are very few and the species requires further 
investigatio 
ton III. Evpanruonra.——Flowering glume ovoid or oblong " 
the ee scarcely, oblique, ciliate with lon hairs at least at the base gi 
margins. Awn longer than the lateral lobes which are Reque y 
scarious, except the central nerve or nerves. 
. F.Mueller, Fragm. viii. 135, proposes to unite the whole of od perd: species 
Eades r the name of D. penicillata. They appear sometimes to ach nc 
respects, and the characters derived from the shape E prey “lowe ied 
red ind = lobes and hairs as well as the form of the palea ces require sculiat 
research before they can So definitely fixed, - there certainly veral pec 
forms, ahi require to be distinguished t as marked races. 
4. D. pallida, R. Br. Prod. 177.—Stems 2 ft. high or more, often 
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