664 CXLIV. GRAMINE. | Festuca. 
me narrow, keeled, scarcely 2 lines long, the 2nd rather longer, 
rved ; floweri ing gl mes 3 lines long or rather more, faintly nerved, 
ne p 
Palea with a fine bifid point. Stamens 3.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm 
ii. 126; Reichb. Ie. Fl. Germ. t. 62. 
— Barclay Ranges at an elevation vil Im to 4000 ft., F. Mueller. 
ia. Formosa, Gunn ; Swanport, Stor 
One of the widely-dispersed forms of the ier s Fescue or F. ovina, Linn., very 
abundant on downs and hilly pastures of the temperate regions of both the New ad 
the Old World. 
Var. aristata. Spikelets rather larger with awns at least as long as the glumes. 
. Victoria. Ballarat, Bacchus 
S. Australia. Flinders and Barossa Ranges, F. Mueller. 
rigida, Mert. and Koch ; Kunth, Enum. i. 392.—A small rigid 
tud annual, rarely above 4 or 5 in. high, with flat leaves, the ligula 
M d. Panicle occupying more than half the plant, rigid and secund, 
Spikelets few, very shortly pedicellate on the very short pains all 
turned to one side, 3 to 4 lines long, 6- to 10-flowered. Outer glumes 
narrow, keeled, acute ; flowering ones rather above 1 line long, faintly 
3-nerved, |, obtuse, unawned.—Sclerochloa rigida, Panz. ; Reichb. Ie. Fl, 
Germ 
S. tralia. Introduced from Europe and now common about Adelaide and 
Hopkins. River, F. Mueller; Lake Bonney, Mrs. Wehl ; Port Lincoln, S. F. Browne. 
SUBTRIBE V. HORDEINEZX. A ee several- or 1-flowered, sessile 
in the alternate notches or o opposite sides of the rhachis of a simple 
upper 
flower into a short point or bearing an empty glume. Glumes entire, 
unawned or with a terminal untwisted awn 
99. AGROPYRUM, Beauv. ' 
glumes. Glumes rounded on the back or scarcely keeled, tapering 
into points or awns, the flowering ones 3- to 7-nerved, the 2 outer 
ost ma 
seabrous-ciliate. Ovary pubescent at the top. Styles short, distinet. 
free or slightly adhering to the palea. 
26 genus is ren spread over the temperate re f the globe. Of the 
gions of the globe. 
three Australian species one is also in New w Zealand, the two vius appear to be 
