654 CXLIV. GRAMINES. | Poa. 
When fu a out the pet eles are broad almost áp those ofa Briza, but in I 
specimens both from S, and West Au: milia: cei e lanceolate close in rath 
thick, but — EN olmeca 1 is owing to a di ilte rent stage of development 
rather than to any distinction of ra 
. oe R. Br. Prod. 180.—A_ glabrous perennial, i to 1i 
ft. high. gom ew, flat, rigid, acute or almost obtuse, 1 to 2 lines 
broad, the upper ones small and distant with long sheaths. : Panicle 
on a long pedunele, very narrow, with few erect branches. Spikelets 
few, oblong, about 3 lines g, 3- or 4-flowered, the rhachis glabrous. 
Flowering glumes broad, A obtuse, about 1i lines long, closely 
imbricate, minutely ciliate, ths keel rather prominent, E lateral nerves 
Gra 
very we 2 on each side. ain not seen.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 
125, t. 164. 
Tasm Summit of Mount Wellington, R. Brown, panes Apparently a 
very distinct : species more nearly allied to P. nodosa than to P. spite but Lm p 
only seen the specimen figured by J. D. Hooker and g”: He 
Bro own. 
* 3. T annua, Linn.; Kun th, Enum. i. 349,—A tuna annual, 
often only 2 or 3 in., did rarely 1 ft. high. Leaves flat, flaccid. 
Senis — and spreading. Spikelets shortly pedicellate, about 2 
lines long, 3- tọ 6-flowered, the rhachis glabrous. Flowering glumes 
more or less distinctly 5- nerved, with a yaline apex, the keel often 
minutely silky-hairy. Grain free, oblong. 
A common grass in the northern hemisphere, now a naturalised m— in ee 
shinies! said es T abundant in Victoria, Tasmania, S. Aus 
alia, as in "der stations in N. S. Wales and in ipu wei 
8. P. lepida, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 130.—An erect annual, Jiii 
from 2 or 3 in. to nearly 1 ft. high, more slender and less spreading 
less silky-hairy. Flowering glumes narrow, obtuse, ind 3 T " 
long, 7- to 11-nerved, the keel prominent, ciliate with sts hairs "below 
the middle ; outer glumes 3-nerved. Grain apparently broader than in 
most Poe aud broadly furrowed, but not seen ripe. 
Murray and Darling Rivers, Victorian Expedition ; Lachlan 
er basing i Mire Burkitt 
S. A Crystal Brook, F. Mueller, near Lake Greenley, Wilhelmi. 
93. SCHEDONORUS, Beauv. 
Spikelets several-flowe red, flattened, in a narrow and spikelike or 
loose and spreading pauiele, the thachis of the spikelet — or 
