Phragmites.) CXLIV. GRAMINE®. 637 
long, with numerous branches, more or less one-sided and drooping, 
often of a purplish brown tinge. Spikelets numerous, at first very 
narrow, 4 to 6 lines long, flat and spreading when in seed, the long 
silky hairs proceeding from the rhachis and as long as or longer than 
the glumes, giving the panicle a beautiful silvery aspect; the glumes 
themselves and the short part of the rhachis below the 3rd glume quite 
glabrous.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 118; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t, 108; 
Arundo phragmites, Linn. ; R. Br. Prod. 183. 
Queensland. Goold Island, M'Gillivray ; Cape Grafton, A. Cunningham ; 
Rockingham Bay, Dallachy, southern districts from numerous collectors. 
. S. Wales. P kson, R. Brown; New England, €. Stuart; Clarence 
River, Wilcox ; Murrumbidge, Mrs. Calvert ; Lord Howe's Island, Fwllagar. 
Victoria. Melbourne to the western frontier, Robertson, F. Mueller and others. 
Tasmania. Abundant in watery places throughout the island, J. D. Hooker. 
S. Australia. Spencer's Gulf, R. Brown ; St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller. 
I have seen no specimens from West Australia. 
86. DISTICHLIS, Rafin. 
empty glumes, narrow, keeled. Flowering glumes broader, keeled, 
els 
à small rudimentary ovary. a 
Lodicules broad. Ovary glabrous, tapering into 2 ratber long styles 
With exserted stigmas. “Grain obovoid or elliptical, free, with a thick 
Spongy pericarp. 
The genus i inele maritime species of very wide range, chiefly 
cn, ern hes e one "ie American. "rhe Australian plant 
appears to be identical with the common American one. 
l. D. maritima, fin. in Journ. Phys. \xxxix. 104.—A rigi 
glabrous much-branched grass, forming broad low leafy tufts, the 
branches sometimes growing out to 1 ft. covered to the inflorescence with 
the leaf-sheaths. Leaves narrow, rigid, very acute or pungent-pointed, 
usually distichously spreading. Spikelets few, 2 males, 
rather more in the males, 6 to 9 lines long in the Australian specimens, 
rather smaller and more numerous in some American ones, flat 
rather thick, 8- to 12-flowered. Glumes closely imbricate, about 3 lines 
long, rather rigid and straw-coloured. Anthers in the males long. 
Stigmas in the females protruding from the end of the glumes.— Uniola 
spicata, Linn. Spec. Pl. 104; Brizopyrum spicatum, Hook. and Arn 
Bot. Beech. 403: Uniola distichophylla, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 21, t: 
24; Poa distichophylla, R. Br. Prod. 182 ; Festuca distichophylla, Hook. 
f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 127; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 129; Poa paradoza, Kom. 
and Schult. Syst. ii. 569; Poa Michauzi, Kunth, Enum. i. 325, Rev. 
