594 CXLIV. GRAMINEJE. { Danthonia. 
D. racemosa, R. Br. Prod. 177.—Stems slender, 1 to 2 ft. high. 
tines very narrow, almost setaceous, glabrous or ‘sprinkled with 
spreading hairs. Spikelets i in the typical form singly and very shortly 
ea e or almost sessile and rather distant along the rhachis of a 
simple raceme, but sometimes more approximate and ‘the lower pedicels 
with 2 piven. Spikelets narrow, erect, under 3 in. long, the outer 
glumes nearly as long. spi ering glumes 6 to 8, or more in some 
distinct marginal tufts. Lateral lobes in the typical forth broad with 
short fine points, but more awned in some varieties. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Darling Downs and Armidale, Herd. 
F. Mueller. 
Var. earn E Muell. A smaller plant. Leaves more hairy. etant lobes of 
the flow es with scarcely any points,—New England, C. Stua 
Var. biar i. Lateral lobes of the flowering glumes broad, but d rather 
long points or awns 
N. S. Wales. "Head of the Gwydir, Leichhardt ; Bulli, Johnstone. 
Victoria. Cobberas, Dandenong Ranges, Curdie's River, F. Mueller; Ballarat, 
Bacchus 
asmania. Southport, C. Stua 
S. Australia. St. Vincent's Gulf F. Mueller. 
Var. vs icillata. inal hairs of the flowering glumes in several distinct tufts 
on each side,—.4 jns pe llata,  Labill ill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i.26,t. 34 va om the figure and 
description) ; D. Gunniana, Nees in Hook. Lond, Journ. ii. 416.— Tasmania, C. Stuart, 
Story, Bissill, Gunn 
Var. ? mulifira QUEM em 2 together and all approximate. Flowers 
rather num e spikelet.— Warwick, Zeckier; Hunters River, Leichhardt ; 
New En pind € C. St hve interior d Ss. Australia, F. Mueller 
8. D. pilosa, R. Br. Prod. 177.—Stems rather slender, 1 to 2 ft. 
ben. Leaves chiefly in radical tufts, very narrow but not so slender 
in D. setacea, usually i midi or ka hairy, the hairs sometimes long 
and | oa Panicle narrow and dense, not much branched an 
metim s almost as simple as in D. racemosa. Spikelets shortly pedi- 
lumes about as long; owering 
o 8 with lanceolate lobes tapering into fine awns almost as in 
Eidem ud but hairy on the margins only, without the transverse 
ring under the lobes of that Varie and very few hairs if any o n the 
back except at the base.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 120; Sieb. d rice il 
n. y. 
S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. P : 
M cu. = a Deep Uk. T. Haie; Swan Hill, Gummon. 
ouai ort Dalrymple, 2. Brown; abundant throughout the island, J. D. 
w. Warren River and Kari Dale, Walcot ; Swan River, Drum- 
‘Some forms of the species approach in habit the D. racemosa, but the spikelets ate 
