Glyceria. | CXLIV. GRAMINEX. 659 
5. G. dives, F. Muell. Herb.—A stout erect glabrous grass attaining 
lO to 12 feet. Leaves flat, long and broad or narrow, with long loose 
sheaths. Panicle very loose and spreading, 6 in. 
flowered, the rhachis glabrous. Outer glumes acute, prominently 
lines long, broad, with 5 prominent scabrous nerves, not reaching the 
hyaline tip, the margins as well as the keels of the palea shortly ciliate. 
F. Muell. 
Lodieules slightly united at the base.— Festuca dives, 
Fragm. iii. 147, viii. 129. 
Victoria. Upper Yarra, Dandenong Range, Bunip Creek, F. Mueller. 
short on the flowering stems. Panicle 4 to 8 in. long, loosely ovate or 
at length very spreading. Spikelets rather numerous, usually 3 to 5 
lines long with o flowers, but sometimes longer, the rhachis 
glabrous. Outer glumes narrow, hyaline, acute, faintly l-nerved; 
N. S. Wales. Lachlan River, 4. Cunningham ; Molle’s Plains, Fraser ; Mur- 
rumbidgee and lower Darling Rivers, Victorian and other Expeditions. 
ori immera, Wilson (a very poor specimen). 
Murray River, F. Mueller. 
7. G. australasica, S/eud. ^ 
glabrous, many feet high. Leaves few short and erect, mostly leaving 
sheaths only at the time of flowering. Panicle narrow, 3 to 4 in. long 
wi e 
glabrous. Glumes thin and hyaline, the outer ones short, nerveless 
or the 2nd 1-nerved ; flowering glumes 1 to 14 lines long, broad, obtuse 
T slightly jagged, 3-nerved at the base. Grain not seen. 
W. Australia. Drummond, n. 107, 387. This and the preceding species may 
Possibly prove to be varieties of one, but they appear to me to be distinct. 
95. BRIZA, Linn. 
: : EPET 
Spikelets several-flowered, broad, flattened but thin, on filiform p 
cels, in a simple or compound panicle, the rhachis of the spikelet gla- 
brous. Flowering glumes imbricate but spreading, very broad, mem- 
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