Danthonia.) CXLIV. GRAMINER. 593 
rigid but not stout. Leaves long, terete when dry, very narrow and 
sometimes as slender as in D. longifolia, the sheaths more or less ciliate 
at the orifice. Panicle usually loosely branched, pale-coloured, 3 to 
6 in. long, Spikelets rather numerous, the outer glumes under 4 in. 
long Fi owering glumes 3 or 4, not exceedin outer ones, with 
long hairs on the back as well as on the margins, but scattered or in 
vertical lines, without the transverse rin emiannularis ; 
lateral lobes lanceolate, 3-nerved at the base, often scarious upwa ards, 
but the eentral nerve continued to tbe apex or produced into a 
point or short awn.—Trin. Spec. Gram. t. 65; Sieb. Agrostoth. n. 
84, 85, 92. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson e the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, A. nonis vay 
Woolls and spen New England, C. Stuart; north of Bathurst, A, Cunningham 
Shoalhaven C Moore 
Victoria. "Ban a Range, NO Mitta-Mitta, Forest Creek, F. Mueller ; 
Riverina, ilian ; raan Gre 
Tasmania, Rav renswood, Biss sst 
W. Australia. King cuiii 8 Dud Baxter ; Blackwood River, Oldfield, 
Walcot. 
Mes ? subracemosa, Panicle narrow, very little branched. Marginal hairs of = 
flowering glumes copious, — the back less so than in the e typical form.— War 
wick and Macleay Rivers, Beekle 
ft. vts Leaves pe and filiform, poems gid and curved, 
quite ‘glabrous without Er cilia at the orifiee of the nahit Pani 
dense, PE ona ovate or narrow, 3 to 4 in. E uter plumes 
the 2 lobes broad and short, UE with long awns, ‘ard fine as ery " 
the longer central one. — Sieb. Agrostoth. n. 83. 
Mue 
Cres bé ard vrl: "eid z Lye : $n Villi; dp iaga 
New rede r3 P eise Macleay Chile dicker: 
D. robusta, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 44, Fragm. 
viii. 136.— Stems from a thick horizontal rhizome stout, 3 to 5 ft. high. 
eare long, narrow, convolute when dry, glabrous, the upper one with 
h secund, 3 t 
Spikelets pedicellate, about 4 in. long, 5- to 8-flowered. Outer glumes 
Searcely so long, the lowest anes oe the 2nd tapering to a sha 
point. Flowering glumes densely ciliate on the margins, with very 
few hairs scattered on the back, the lobes broad, tapering into short 
ers the central awn long, "fat and much twisted below the 
end, 
Victoria. Maxon Mountains up to the summit of Mount Kosciusko, Mount 
Buller, F, Mueller 
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