P oa. | CXLIV. GRAMINER. 651 
Leaves convolute. Panicle loose with long capillary . 
branches. Spikelets 2- or 3-flowered. . . . . . 4. P. Maxwelli. 
Le p t, narrow, acuminate. Panicle rather dense. 
-flow 
ciliate-pubescent. € UM atthe base 5. P. nodosa. 
Leaves flat, rigid, obtuse ute. Panicle spikelike ‘but 
loose. Spiheleta 3- ori. lv cred, glabro 6. P. saxicola, 
Annuals. Leaves flat, flac 
noe ei "Spi ikelets 2 lines eae aes centr 
5-nerved, glabrous or minutely silky wr 7. P. annua. 
ours narrow. Spikelets My 3 lines long. Flow 
glumes 7- to "a the keel ciliate at the 
pe vith long hair 8. P. lepida. 
Nov. Holl. i. 27, ..85; i Poa sasira var. Billardieri, Hook. 
Tasm. ii. 123. 
N. Australia. Cygnet Bay, N. ae ‘som A. Cunningham. 
Tasmania, Labillardiére, P some o 
W. Australia, Drummond ; South West Bay, A. Cunningham. 
In flower this species is difficult to distinguish from some aoe of the amd 
form of P. cespitosa, though it has generally a denser cons erect panicle, with mo 
eoi orien but the grain when ripe is very different. It is possible that 
some of the specimens I have included in X. eespitosa, having seen them in flower 
only, may belong to P. Billardieri, especially some of the maritime ones from Lord 
Howe's Island; and some from Portland in Victoria 
P. homomalla, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 104. —A grass of 1 ft. or 
niste the stems nea rly si imple. Leaves flat, 1 line broad, with very 
flat striate sheaths, the ligula conspicuous. Panicle narrow, loose, 1 to 
2 in. long with erect flexuose rather ri 
à ; 
` W. Australia. Toody i. Preiss, n. 18 hi id pi s I have seen is 
too imperfect for doceri and the above character is taken chiefly from Nees. 
Some imperfect specimens from Kari Dale, Walcot, o may belong g to the same species, 
ut the 
Z3: P, cæspitosa, Forst.; Spreng. Mant. i. Fi. Hal. 33, and in 
Mem. Acad. Petersb. ii. (1807-8), 302, t. 8.—An exceedingly variable 
