Festuca. | CXLIV. GRAMINE. 663 
Oute umes narrow, acute, keeled, usually un equal Flowe ing 
mes narrow, acute or aperin into an untwisted awn or rarely 
obtuse, round : back, ieri nerved. Palea narrow, with 
The genus is Tur generally spread over the globe eem in temperate or 
es pion 3. Of the three following species one is introduced only from 
p 
r, Fragm. viii. 127 et seq. unites Agropyrum, Triodia, Diplachne, Schedo- 
norus in Gn yceria with pon. Ls he has not P ished his character for the com- 
posite genus thus form eo nor do I well see how ould be fr: rame ed without part erg 
also Triticum, Poa, Bromus and seve nasi others A ig as distin 
Annual. Panicle lente vts. — Awns long. 
Stamen usuall i 
Perennials, Panicle po Sta men 
Small rigid annual. Pani icle-branehes ink , secund; Flower- 
ing glumes obtuse, unawned . 
i F. b 
RE us bee Se 
3. F. rigida. 
. bromoides, Lin».; Kunth, Enum. i. 396.—A slender tufted 
annual, Don a few inches to above 1 ft. high. Leaves chiefly at the base, 
narrow and cony volute, often quite cotaceous. Panicle slender, one- 
sided, contracted, usually rather dense and 2 o 6 in. long, with sho 
erect branches, in small specimens reduced to r or 3 spikelets. Spike- 
lets shortly pedicellate, under E in. long without the awns, 5- to 
9-flowered. Glumes very narrow, the lowest under 2 
lateral nerves, the 2nd empty one 3-nerved, taperin g to a point 
awn; flowering glumes obscurely nerved, about 3 “ines long, ponie 
into a fine awn at least as long as themselves. Stam only. = 
adnate, long and narrow.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 127 ; F. plebeia, &. 
Br. Prod. 178. 
Vy cem Brisbane Ma Bay, ey. 
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Victoria, ar eats ge over the Yarra Ridge, F. Mueller ; Royston, 
SOUL 
"tbe SERE ea Mountain eger D Brown; abundant in dry 
dro etc., J. D. Hooke pi iie dn s Island 
ustralia. d nt's duit F P. Meo et 
W. Au sion Round Sí George’s Sound and neighbouring districts, Oldfield, F. 
M 
ueller, Walcot. Qin 
the Old 
Common in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere in k Ais 
and introduced into North America und Twp: repe countries. F. myurus, Linn., 
does not appear to me distinct as a spec 
2. F. duriuscula, Linn.; Kunth, ah Deen i 399.— Bui peren- 
ial hiefly at the base, very w, 
Mou. Pen Lemes € an 2 to 4 in. long with few erect 
numerous, erect, bade about 3 i in. long, 
branehes. Spikelets not cmon pois ted, the lowest 
to 6-flowered. Glumes rather rigid, the outer 
