Pappophorum. | CXLIV. GRAMINER. GOL 
& similar smaller one with a male or Purses flower, and 1 or 2 still 
smaller empty ones.—JZ. pallidum, R. Br. 1. c., Kunth, Rev. Gram. t. 
if. pm ied and P. grusi I Br. e., gri 
Gaudich. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 4 P flavescens, Lindl. in Miteh. 
Trop. ei 34; P. virens. Lindt. HH 360; P. commune, T. Muell. 
m i. 20 0. 
ustralia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R, Bro een Victoria 
River, Eb : T T oss Bay, and Dam E rs Archipelago, Walco 
d and Kep Bay, R. Brown ; Port Curtis, 
M'Gillivray ; King’s Creek, Bow man; Peak Do owns, uda 
S. ‘Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown and others. In the interior to the 
Darling and vae mbidgee, A. Tri hea Mitchell be others ; “Liverpoo ol plains 
and d New diee , €. Stuart. 
a. Pordland, Allitt ; to Snowy River, F. Mueller. 
Mi yE d Spencer's Gulf, R R. Brown; St. Vincent's Gulf to the Murray, 
e Mueller and others; in the interior Lake Eyre, Andrews ; Charlotte Waters, 
W. A tralia, King George's Sound and neighbouring districts, ÆA Cunning- 
ham, Dru site n. 966, Dempster. 
Also in New Guinea, M'Gillivray. 
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rather narrow duri with the stouter larger rae ee a dee with 
oe oy spikes, but, on going through the long series of specimens before me 
in differ stages of development, I fa va Z sorting them into vom varieties, and 
felt obliged to follow F. Mueller in regarding them all as species, with the 
exception of the following about which I T feel some doubts. 
fully 3 lines long, with numerous nerves, usually more 
and sometimes as many as 21. Flowering glumes — closely 
imbricate, the outer ones with a fertile flower enclosing lor 2 2 with 
feed ue sometimes a second fertile) flowers and 1 or 2 ud empty 
glumes 
Victoria (Barcoo) River, Mitchell ; Murray and Darling Rivers, 
ie Wales. 
chy, Mrs. Calve rt and others. 
pected Lake Eyre, Andrews ; between Alice Springs and Charlotte 
Waters, Giles, 
