Agropyrum. | CXLIV. GRAMINEJ. 665 
endemic. The genus is usually associated with Triticum, founded 
what " "which are certainly ponas y aine sit to Age ops vrum ay ss m iain 
E Nae M ead. d dur op Nes Pedes ; cabrum to the section ders 
Nile epibelrt; p y by the dic of s Mer perir Pic reduced to 
iym narrow, with long awns, erect and distant along 
5 hale os l. A. scabrum. 
p 8 broad, with short points o or awns, ‘erect ‘and close 
Spikelos gesto ng the rh 2, A. velutinum. 
y flat, win shure points or awns, spreading 
or at length reflexed and not distant along the 
. 9. A. pectinatum. 
l. A. scabrum, Beauv. Agrost. 102, — Very variable as 
stature, sometimes under 1 ft. high, alesda: with short s 
_ leaves, and from that to 3 or is ft. with narrow spreading flat 
or convolate leaves. Spike usually 6 in. to 1 ft. long, the 
rhachis scarcely notched Spikelets distant, sessile, erect, $ to 
g. the awns, narro - to -flowered; in the 
small specimens sometimes o only 1 or 2 spikele ts. , Glumes narrow, 
a outer empty ones rather shorter tapering iuto short points, the 
owering ones 4 to 6 lines long without the viet tapering into fine 
and sometimes above 1 in . long, those of the ne and of the lower 
glumes often not so lo s the intermediate ones. Palea obtuse.— 
orn scabra, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 22, t. 26 ; Triticum scabrum, R 
B. ; Ho . Fl Tasm. i. 128; Vulpia rectiseta and V. 
4 voce esr Pl. Preiss. ii ; V. scabra a rau- 
niana, Nees in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 419; Festuca rectiseta, 
F. 
Browniana ae F. gen inia Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 304; Anthosachne 
australasica, Steud. 1. e. 237. 
A ;Menteton Bay, Leiehhardt, C. Stuart ; Warwick, Beckler ; Suttor 
Mo Wales” Port Jackson, A. and others and thence to the B 
d untains and far into the —— Polis poy t Dseninghank. Sieber, Agrostotheca, n. 95, 
an rens Lord Howe's Island, Fudlagar. 
le. Kobert i fusis Loddon, Forest Creek and 
; Mount William, POwlieen. 
ray ‘and sandy places near the sea, J. D. 
Queenslan 
Desert, F. Muel 
N. 
many tier localities, F. Muelle 
asmania. 
did rand e — Spent 
s. tralia. ” Round St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller, Behr and oth 
US cupo s Sound and adjoining districts, Oldfield, Walcot, 
w^ Austra 
Danne a. n. 382, 383, 3 
Also in New Zealand, 
A couple of specimens from Darebin Creek. marked by F: Mueller var. breviseta, 
with very shor ar inflorescence, appear to have sterile yery 
irregular stiles «x indio are probably hytridá 
‘Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 417. — Stems 6 
e £ de stem, flat or 
t or nearly glabrous. 
2. A. velutinum, Nees 
in. to above 1 ft. hi igh. entis chiefly at the bas 
convolute when dry, not rigid, softly pubescen 
