CXLIV. GRAMINES. 639 
88. KGELERIA, Pers. 
Spikelets 2- or more-flowered, flat, shortly pedicellate, numerous in 
a dense spike-like cylindrical or interrupted panicle, the rhachis of the 
spikelet articulate between the flowering glumes, glabrous. Glumes 
keeled, acute or produced into short straight awns or points, 2 outer 
empty ones unequal and searious on the margin only ; flowering glumes 
similar but more scarious or hyaline, the upper ones gradually smaller, 
the lowest the largest and sessile within the empty ones, the uppermost 
one or two usually empty. Palea very thin, acutely 2-keeled, 2-toothed 
or 2-pointed. Styles very short. Grain enclosed in the glume and 
palea free from them. 
A small genus ranging over the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, 
more sparingly distributed in the southern and perhaps most frequently introduced. 
The Australian species are both common northern ones. 
Perennial, Larger glumes acute, 2 to 3lineslong. . . . 1. K. cristata, 
Annual. Larger glumes shortly awned, 1} lines long. . 2. K. phleoides. 
K. cristata, Pers.; Kunth, Enum. i. 381.—A perennial, the 
common northern form usually about 6 in. high with a dense tuft of 
short leaves and a cylindrical spike-like panicle of 1 to 2 in., the spike- 
lets mostly 2- or 8-flowered, Australian specimens belonging chiefly 
to a luxuriant form 1 to 2 ft. Leaves pubescent-ciliate. Spike- 
like panicle 3 to 6 in. long, interrupted at the base, very shining. 
Spikelets 4 to 5 lines long, with 5 to 7 flowers Outer glumes 3 lines 
more scarious, almost nerveless except the green keels, all acute but 
not awned.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 126; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 93. 
N. S. Wales. North of Bathurst, A. Cunningham (large and luxuriant). 
Victoria. Wimmera, Curdie (the small typical form). , 
Tasmania, Macquarrie Plains, Gunn (large and luxuriant). 
The species ranges over the temperate and subtropical regions of the New and the 
Old World in the northern hemisphere, and in some parts of the southern. 
2. K. phleoides, Pers; Kunth, Enum. i. 383.—An erect tufted 
annual of 6 in. to 1 ft. usually glabrous except long cilia on the 
margins and orifice of the leaf-sheaths. Spikelike panicle $ to 25 in. 
long, cylindrical or when large slightly branched. Spikelets about 2 
lines long, with 5 to 7 flowers. Glumes very spreading, the larger ones 
1} lines long with a point or awn rarely above 1 line long, the outer 
empty ones unequal, the lowest small and acute, the 2nd shortly pointed 
and nearly as long as the flowering ones, the terminal empty glume or 
glumes usually broader, shorter and awnless. 
7S t; Mudgee, Taylor. 
s pice As Gu rates Hives F. Mueller ; Swan Hill Gummon 
(the latter with very short awns). 
