Glyceria, | CXLIV. GRAMINER. 657 
at 
most marked in the G. fluitans and exist to a certain degree in some other foi 
ey are however, as far as has been apati not constant in all the species which 
have been included in the genus, which requir s farther revision in connection wi 
some closely allied ones from the northern ae 
Flowering glumes with a tuft of hairs round the base or 
on the back below the middle. Panicle loose 1. G. Fordeana. 
Rhachis and base of the flowering glumes glabrous or 
e 
Stems rarely 3 ft. high. nicle narr 
Panicle long and loose. Spikelets 4 : v 1 in. Flowering 
gu distant, narrow, 3 lines long, outer apa 
bo 
uch shorter . . G. fluitans, 
Panions — Spikel ets. few, broad, } to 3 in. 
' Flov Mamie Se , 3 to 4 lines Bos 
oe pe^ 
merid "yt “Spikelets numerous, narrow, 3 to 4 
Flowering glumes 11 lines long . 
— 6t to 12 ft. high, voies ith jon ng le eg Panicle 
and loose. Spikelets numerous, 3 to 4 lines 
= 
G. latispicea. 
. G. stricta. 
Ho 
G. dives. 
pi 
Stems ong rigid, ‘tall with few short leaves and often 
clusters of short bra m Flowering glumes hya- 
e, 3-nerved at rm 
Panicle very — ‘Spikelets 6- to 12-flowered. 
astern . 6. G. ramigera. 
| OR oblong, k Spikelets numerous, 4- to 6- 
flowered. Western species . T. G. australasica. 
1 ordeana, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 130.—An erect glabrous 
grass attaining 2 or 3 ft. Leaves flat, very scabrous. Panicle very 
ode. compou und, 4 to 8 in. long, with very spreading capillary branches, 
— lanceolate, mostly 4 to : E 
long, 8- to ids M er r glumes acu ute, 3 3-nerved ; 
S. Wales. Darling River, Mrs. Forde; Lachlan River, Burkitt; Mount 
Murchison Bonney. 
Victoria. Mi River, F. Mueller ; Wimmera, Wilson. 
2. G. fluitans, R. Br. Prod. 179.—Stems creeping in - mud or 
floating at the base, ascending to 2 or 3 ft. Leaves narrow u^ 
` glabrous, the ligula jagged. Panicle loose, long and narrow. Spike t s 
solitary in the distant notches or 2 or 3 on a short branch ge nd 
same notch, erect, narrow, } to J in. long, 6- to 20-flowered, the rhachis 
glabrous as well as the glumes. ter glumes broad, obtuse, hyaline, 
faintly nerved at the base, the lowest ora Mer pede 
flowering glumes more rigid, about 3 lines ud out ; 
not reaching to the hyaline obtuse entire or slightly ee me apex. 
