656 CXLIV. GRAMINE. [ Schedonorus. 
Rhachis of the spikelet shortly hairy.—Festuca littoralis, nih Pi; 
Nov. Holl. i. 22, t. 27 ; R. Br. Prod. 178; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm, ii. 128; 
Sieb. Agrostoth. n. 58; Arundo triodioides, Trin. Spec. Grat. t 351; 
Schedonorus Billardierianus, Nees in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 419. 
Sg as Moreton Island, F. Mueli 
N. ales. Port Jackson, R. Brows, Woolls; also in Leichhardt's col- 
lectio 
Victoria, Sea-shore, Port Phillip, Adamson ; Wilson's Promontory, F. 
Meters 
Tasmania, Labillardiére ; AE on rocks and sandhills near the coast, J. D. 
ates * King 's Is en d, Nea 
S. lia. Lake ida: F. Mueller. 
Man triticoides. Stems igi n I oie larger than in the typical form. 
au s about } in. long, the outer often E nerved and the flowering 
nes 7. Bir ved: air ni. e T Stend BA Glum, 
W. Australia, Drummond, n 70, 150, 377, 393. 
ookerianus, Benth.—A stout giganto of 2 to4 ft. ipia 
or slightly exten RM. Leaves flat, rather long. Panie very 
loose, 6 in. to 1 ft. long, with rather short and erect or Toni an 
spreading i^ aed V i numerous, 4 to 5 lines long, 4- to 6- 
glumes rigidly ie e about 3 lines ea 
eeki only in the s part, the tip hyaline, entire or notched, t 
keel produced into a short point; outer glumes shorter, unequal, d 
minentlv keeied, the 2nd often 3-nerved. iun sa Hookeriana, i . 
Muell. in Hook. Fl. Tasm. ii. 127, t. 165; Poa p rR Muell 
Fragm. viii. 131. 
Victoria. Berrima and Cobberas Mountains, Australian Alps, F. Mueller ; cul- 
tivated at Ballarat, Baechus 
Tasmania. Cheshunt, y E Meander River, C. Stuart. 
94. GLYCERIA, R. Br. 
the nerves not reaching to the hyaline obtuse sometimes slightly den- 
tieulate apex. Palea nearly as long as the glume. Ovar ry d glabrous. 
Styles distinet, very "os the plumose stigmas frequently more 
branched than in other g nera. Grain glabrous, enelosed in ithe glume 
and palea but tè from th the 
The gei is MEME fitriuted over the temperate a some warmer regions of 
the globe. Of the en Australian species, one has extensive range in the 
northern hemisphere both in the New and the Old World, one extends to New 
remaining five appear to be endemi 
