Poa.) CXLIV. GRAMINER. 653 
but t pass ing much into the smooth P. australis and into P. levis, in W. Aus tralia 
often loosing the woolly — se the spikelet and passing into P. serpentum, (Port 
Jackson, R. “Brown ; W. Australia, Drummond, n. 981, etc.) 
> Var. art € Leaves mostly radical, setaceous, much shorter than the 
erect and exceedingly scabrous. Stems underl ft. high with a very loose uae 
rather small panicle. Glumes 1 to 14 lines lon g.—P. australis, R. Br. Prod. 179 ; 
Nees in Sie st. n. 77; P. Sieberiana, Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post, eet P. impies, 
in, in Mem. Acad. Petersb. ser, 6. i. 388. Tasmania, very abundant (R. Brow 
e described. In Mae and N. S. Wales the E Puts 
er eon Ste = -Syn Glum., i. 262.— Woods and ina places, N. 'S. Wales, Victoria 
an 
4. P. Maxwelli, Benth—An erect tufted glabrous smooth and 
shining grass of 2 or 3 ft. or more. Leaves long, convolute, almost sub- 
ulate. Panicle from a few inches to 1 ft. long, narrow but very loose, 
he ele 
pedieellate té the munde: searcely 2 lines long, glabrous, 2- or 3- 
flowered. Flowering glumes rather broad, very obtuse, EN , with 
scarious entire or denticulate tips. Palea nearly as long and rather 
broad, glabrous. Stamens 3. Grain oblong, free. 
` W. Australia. King George's Sound, Maxwell. 
5. P. nodosa, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 105.—Stems usually about 2 
ft. high, facing at the base 1, 2 or 3 superposed globular or ovoid 
nodules, 3 or “4 lin nes dibiicter: Takida ong, narrow, flat, usually 
scabrous. Panicle loose, narrow or spreading. Spikelets s 3 to 4 lines 
long, 5- to 8-flowered, rather narrow at first with closely a pressed 
glumes, at length broad and flat, the Pe spreading out. Flowering 
glumes about 2 lines long, 5-nerved, without the woolly hairs at the 
e of most Poe, but shortly ciliate-pubescent on the keel and mar- 
o below the middle. Palea "ad as long, the keels minutelv 
ili ERE free. Muel viii. 
rous. 
132 ; P. brizochloa, F. Muell. in dran. Viet. Inst. 1855, 45 ; P. Drum- 
Tege akg i in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 418 ; P. cognata, Steud. Syn. 
kgs 
tralia. Lofty Ranges and other localities from St. Vincent's Gulf to 
B X x egg River, Oldfeld, Drummond, 169 and 
W. Aus an River, rum n. 
Champion Ba Bay wart iiid River, Oldfield ; near Limekiln, Preiss, n. er; West 
y, Maxwell. 
