650 CXLIV. GRAMINES. [ Eragrostis. | 
Tuone. vinna, Herb. F. Mue 
Aus Morunda o, WP kw send F. Mueller; Alice Springs and 
Chant Nato Giles ; Lake il, 
alia. Sharks dn Gaudichand) ; Swan River, D: Xi co 
also n. : 149, 974, 975; Murchison River, Oldfield ; Fraser's Range, Dew 
Some depauperate dwarf specimens ideo the Darling, Mrs. Forde, have qe puce 
reduced to 1 to 3 or 4 very long attenuated spikelets, but the structure is the same. 
9. E. stenostachya, Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 279. — Stems above 1 ft. 
hig "x slender. Leaves very narrow elabrous. Panicle with few 
horizontally divaricate slender but r id branches, Spikelets sessile or 
nearly so, scattered or clustered, borisoufelis divaricate or reflexed, 
in 
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10-flowered, the rhachis not articulate. Flowering glumes closel 
appressed, rather obtuse, thin almost hyaline, the nerves € 
eonspieuous. engen rather shorter, very narrow.— oa stenostachya, 
R. Br. Prod. 1 
Saray as softer River, Banks and Solander, a single specimen in Herb. 
Banks 
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Var. ? floribunda. Leaves TR 4to 6 in, long, the orifice of the "ep ve eeu 
with a fèw (— ‘Pan cle oe m with more numerous Sp sara u 
shape and divaricate or med n the same as in Danks's specimen 
N. Australia. Port Daveds, Schultz, n. 802. 
92. POA, Linn. 
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Spikelets several- usuaily few-flowered, ina panicle usually 100 
and spreading rarely narrow and spikelike, the rhachis of the zd 
are between the flowering glumes. Glumes tines ae unan ToP 
prominently 2-nerved or B kool. Grain enclosed in the voie 
palea and falling off with them, but free or rarely adnate to the pa 
fl 
. The genus is the most widely diffused over the globe in the whole dosi SET 
in temperate and coo opi pelma, Appius e Arctic circle and n sum: uio od, one 
eight Australian species one is a common European weed probabl y introd to be 
nid rie ue re also s Now Canini, the remaining six or five appear 
C 
Perennials. Grain Vibes to the pal 
Panicle narrow and dense, the atikel ariang e Jp, Billar ard 
era small id loose. (Plant imperfectly knoy wn) . Py MS 
Puede d enclosed in the glume and palea but free 
m 
Leaves setaceous or ee and convolute = ending in 
eene dense and : or 
—S Spike ELM 4-to ^y Pini a Glumes itosā. 
and palea glabrous or with woolly hairs at the base, 3. P. cespitosa 
