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598 CXLIV. GRAMINEÆ. [Amphipogon. 
perfect, the outer one about 2 ee diei inner Hera onger de more 
acute. Flow wering glume on the ehort hairy stipes shorter than the 
outer glume, with 2 short rows of hairs on the back, divided into 3 
rigid ciliate linear lobes or awns longer than the entire part. Palea 
narrow, deeply divided into 2 rigid lobes similar to those of the flower- 
ing glume. Seed separable from e membranous esp META n 
strictus, Beauv. Agrost. 122; Amphipogon caricin . Muell. 
Linnea, xxv. 445; A. Brownei, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. "201, partly. 
tafira Port Jackson, g T own, Pinih and others; v und. Range A._ 
Suningians D arling River, Mrs. ; Nandar De Creek, Victorian * Expedition. 
eds Glenelg River, Roberts sd » ‘Grampian , F. Mueller. k 
ia. Around St. Vincent’s Gulf, F. Mueller and others; in the in 
ste Babbage, Giles. 
W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond 1st coll., also n. 982 and 987. 
Brown’s typical specimens have short erect eon and the cy Je qui n: 
ster d above 4 in. long, and a few of the Port Jack specimen: qui 
em, but most of the others pass into some of the follower veniddiek 
Var. gracilis, Spike narrow with small spikelets, the awns mos ciliate. ae 
gracilis, Wess in pt Preiss. ii. 101.—Callitris Plains, Leichhardt; York di strict, 
Australia, Preiss, n. 1831 "T 
Var. setifer. Spike ovate or ee e-oblong. ‘or cylindrical when young, i 
long. Spikelets at om larger than in the typic al form, the ou eia glumes lat 
with ri the ck,—Lofty Range, F. Muel P 
sere aller v W. Axradien specimens connect this and the following vari 
ar. avenaceus. Leaves y Spike 1 to i4 in. long, with rather large E E 
—A. avenaceus, E Br. Prod dames) George's Sound, R. Brown, and a 
mens from other localities xd. quote 
cens i. part ii. 196 estt the styles as distinct. In all the pm Eis 
I its examined I have found them united to about halfway up to the stigma 
3. A. laguroides, R. Br. Prod. 175.—Stems rigid, me loss 
lets sessile, a few of fe = eh ones narrow and barren. Outer glume 
nearly equal, 3 to 4 membranous, . lanpeelate hispid wi 
long hairs slightly dated h gros base, taperin rigid d ie 
Flowering glume paler and thinner, shorter, slightly heey , divide 
near the middle into lanceolate lobes tapering into rigid points 
not protruding beyond the outer glumes. Pa as long and near * Al 
; 2-lobed, with hyaline margins almost produced into additio 
lateral: lobes. Styles Mg shortly ited at the base.—420p eu 
laguroides, Beauv. Agrost. 122. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown ; also Drummond, 1st coll. 
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Pentacraspe don amphipogonoides, Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 151, from Kin g Geor ap 
ste y Santo is probably this species, M oi tinguished chiefly by the ake being 
