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Botanist and Professor of Botany at the Melbourne University, in 
The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria, 
December, 1908, has reached Kew. In this article the author 
deals with the history and the hypothetical origin of the plant, and 
he also states that Professor Hackel, to whom specimens had been 
submitted, considered the grass “to be a new undescribed species 
intermediate between Phalaris buibosa, L., and Phalaris arundin- 
acea, Li.” A specimen of the grass was received at Kew from 
Professor Ewart in 1908, and it was then named Phalaris 
bulbosa, L, Further material has come to hand quite recently from 
Mr. J. H. Maiden, Sydney, and Mr. J. Medley Wood, Durban, 
and it is now possible to deal with the matter more ful y- 
bout four or five years ago, Mr. Charles Ross, manager of the 
State Farm, Westbrook, Queensland, distributed in Australia a 
charge, and was assumed to be one of about 60 grasses received 
by his predecessor, the late Mr. Way, from the Agricultural 
Department of New York, U.S.A., in 1884. It is stated that since 
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Gippsland, Victoria (Journ. Dep. Agric. West Austr. xlii., 381), 
Royal re te Society at Adelaide (Journ. Dep. Agric. South 
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account introduced into Natal (Natal Agric. Journ. xi., 1436). 
The grass appeared in the Australian agricultural literature from 
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ast Se gree Pkg with this exception : that the specimen 
wart has an unusually long and rigid 
