652 CXLIV. GRAMINE F. [ Poa. 
usually surrounded by a few fine woolly hairs but sometimes the whole 
spikelet glabrous, the cilia of the palea-keels when present very minute. 
Grain oblong, usually narrow, enclosed in the glume and palea but free 
from them.——P. australis, P. levis, P. plebeia a and P. affinis, R. Br. 
Prod. 179 ; P. australis, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 123, except the var. a. 
Queensland. Only known from the districts bordering on N. 5. Wales, Beckler, 
Bailey. 
S. Wales, Victoria, Tas a, and W. Australia. Appears to. be 
iens nt in the "ettled and. piment ur richer ey of these colonies, 
whence we have specimens from stations far td numerous t o particularise, k : have 
seen scarcely any from the desert interior. The species is "Mir in New Zea 
The pian of the s species are very great and it is difficult to ati dun 
ingle one, yet they -— to be so closely connected by numerous er i 
mediates, that precise ia iie nnot be given to the different forms, of whic 
following are the m ah 
T 
The typical form, agreeing eus with pg figure and description wen : 
is said from a New Zealand specimen of F r's) is well repre esented by 
specimens from Lord Howe’s Island, crow with tall leafy stems, me long font 
lute smooth wn Aon the panicle. Glumes about 2 lines long. tel 
orig Sipe oe am habit the P. Billar dieri i, but in the few he aa ones seen 
grain is vehi w and free 
Var, plebeia. Tall and leafy. Leaves narrow, flat or more or less con Tim: 
Panicle exceeding the leaves, rather jen and pore Glumes 2 to x tin me "X 
ially surrounded b ew e's hai Nee 
ER. Br; 
ii. 105.—Chiefly in N. S. Wales and in W. Australia bra vins, n. 1800; Dr Drummond n: 
449 dg Port din. R, Brown). 
serpentum.—Like the var. plebeia or the var. Sora but the rhachis "e A 
spikelat and base of the hune MESE labrous ntum, Nees in Pl. 
ii. 106.—Apparently common in W. A eatin. 
Var. ave Very tall and luxuriant, with flat ade often 2 to 4 ot ey a 
h 
A very few specimens from Illaw. arra, Johnson, and Munyong Mountain Mueller 
Var. levis. Leaves, when most hatietoristio zx erect, terete, Sm T 
shining, and the neck vine reper but in many specimens the leaves m n 
and sometimes filiform e var. australis, but always quite smooth, the 
then taller and the eiie cto diffuse. Glumes usually about EG lines mei 
P x m io f Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 275; P. afinis, Nees, l. c e «d 
specim from the southern colonies, (Preiss, n, 1830, ti, 1 y ummon 
168 and 449 pes Kent's Group and King George's Sound, R. B 
Var. alpina, F. Muell. A dwarf tufted form, with the rigid smooth saree c 
var. levis and the short loose panicles of some specimens of the var. austraus- 
Mount Wellington in Tasmania, Gun», Oldfield. 
- Var. «cen cd „Leaves cbe d narrow but often flat as in the var. plebeia, iio 
panicle ore numerous smaller spikelets, the glumes usually lonies 
song See ainis T R. Br.— One of the commonest forms in the eastern 00 
