29) 
eylindric spike (16 cm. long) with somewhat smaller and narrower 
bein 
mainly due to the keels being less widely winged. It has, however, 
wings. The samples communicated by Mr. Maiden and Mr, Medley 
Wood are fully developed and certainly confirm the determination 
Se i 
the grass owes its name. The plant is, however, able to adapt itself 
to a great variety of external conditions, and the development of 
the vegetative parts vary accordingly. Fairly luxuriant Specimens 
with slightly swollen basal internodes are extant in the Kew 
collections from Algeria, representing & strain such as might have 
given rise to the luxuriant Toowoomba race. Tt is stated by 
Dr. Ewart (Journ. Dept. Agric. Vietoria, vol. vi. 1908, p. 73%), 
being almost half as long as glume yz. 
there is no occasion for the assumption of 
Toowoomba grass or for treating it 2 
to be simply a very robust race of the Mediter 
Whether it actually sprang up f 
tubbish heap, and that there is appa : 
connection SERS ‘these two facts. Moreover there is nothing in 
the publications of the Agricultural Department 0 
was in c 
ork to show that the grass or does it seem to have been 
N 
i atural 
_ On the other hand, its na 
aly yee ars pe Morocco to Mesopotamia, ont the 
fact that it often occurs on cultivated ground, and particularly on 
