gne CXLIV. GRAMINE. 655 
Tabi hairy, articulate under the flowering glumes, Outer empty 
puer narrow, acute, Men led or Brus ved. Flowering glume usually 
om or 
nearly as long, usually rather broad prominently 2-ne erved. Styles 
singe slightly excentrical. Grain very obtuse, usually broadly fur- 
, free from the palea. 
The genus comprises several species, qu from the temperate regions ofthe 
shortheet i or the southern hemisphere ; its limits are yp Ra Me oie von unsettled. 
Of the three Australian species, one is also » New Zealand, t r two a appear 
M = — on name of the genus is frequently spelt by peels ir Schenodorus, 
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ovary, from Festuca in the flow ering glume and from both in the free grain, in 
which it approaches Poa and Glyceria, but differs in the flowering glume and 
and somewhat in habit. 
Panicle narrow, dense and spikelike or interrupted. 
eaves none except Baca scales at the base of the 
C MENU . . IL. S. seirpoidcus. 
Lea ves long. erect and ri rigid pee ta M S MP LEE ay LO. 
Panicle looseand spreading . . . . . . 8 S. Hookerianus. 
(See also Poa Billardieri, which has the grain i ficis as in Schedonorus.) 
1. S. scirpoideus, Benth.—Stems rushlike, terete, rigid, 2 to 4 ft. 
high, leafless except anhaa a, appressed sheathing scales at 
the base, the longest inner one 6 to 8 in. long, Panicle narrow w and 
flat, oval or oblong, 4 to 8 lines long, 6- to 8- flowered. Glumes straw- 
coloured or pale-brown, rigid, about 3 lines long, the flowering ones 
obtuse or slightly notched with the keel produced into a short point 
in some specimens, not rotruding in others, ton 2 outer empty ones 
more acute and keeled Euh the base. Ovary glabrous. Styles ond 
longer with darker coloured stigmas than in ers Festucacer. Gra 
free and furrowed, but not seen ripe. —Brizopyrum ia arg Steud. 
“eh D, Siah Put Festuca trenes F. Muell. Fragm, vii 
ttoralis, Beauv. Agrost. 99. e 1 to 3 ft. high, forming 
des ps tufts of a pale y ow colour, Leaves nearly cy drical, 
PO , dense and spi e, 2 to 4 in. long. Spikele few, 
fst, sos 7 vs 9 lines p 6- s owe d Hug m about 4 
long, PER w-coloured, the flowering ones nerves on each 
slightly protruding, the 2 outer empty ones narrower, 
