Agrostis. | GRAMINEA, 863 
stout or slender, quite glabrous, leafy. Leaves numerous, shorter 
than the culms, #,-} in. broad, involute, striate, scaberulous on the 
margins and veins; sheaths long, contracted at the mouth, deeply 
grooved, pale; ligules oblong, membranous, truncate at the apex, 
lacerate. Panicle 1-4in. long, +-#in. broad, contracted, linear- 
oblong, rather dense, erect or inclined; rhachis stout, scabrid; 
branches numerous, whorled, erect, scaberulous. Spikelets 4 in. 
long, light-green or purplish; pedicels usually shorter than the 
spikelets, scabrid, thickened at the tips. ‘T'wo outer glumes sub- 
equal, lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate or almost hispid along the keel, 
sides scaberulous; 3rd or flowering glume +4 the length of the 2nd 
or rather shorter, membranous, glabrous, truncate at the apex and 
more or less evidently 4-cuspidate, awn from half-way down the 
back, straight or flexuous or slightly recurved, usually longer than 
the spikelet. Palea very short, hardly exceeding the ovary, some- 
times wanting. — Hook. f. in Phil. Trans. elxvili. (1879) 21. A. 
antarctica, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1. 374, t. 1382; Handb. N.Z. Fi. 
327. <A. multicaulis, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 95. 
SoutH Istanp: Otago—Head of Clinton Valley, near Lake Te Anau, Petrie! 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL IstANDS: Sir J. D. Hooker, Kirk! ANTIPODES 
Isnanp: Kirk! Macquarie Isuanp: A. Hanilton. 
Also found in Chili, Fuegia, the Falkland Islands, Kerguelen Island, 
Marion and Heard Islands. Sir J. D. Hooker, in his memoir on the flora of 
Kerguelen Island (Phil. Trans. Vol. clxviii.) has reduced both A. antarctica and 
A. multicaulis to A. magellanica, Lam. Professor Hackel concurs in this, re- 
marking that A. antarctica only differs from the typical A. magellanica in the 
less-pointed outer glumes, and that A. multicawlis is only a dwarfed state, 
not separable as a distinct variety. 
2. A. muscosa, 7’. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii. (1881) 385.— 
Minute, very densely tufted, forming small rounded cushion-like 
patches 1-2in. diam., and less than lin. high. Culms densely 
packed, much branched at the base, leafy throughout. Leaves 
longer or shorter than the culms, pale glaucous-green; blades 
spreading, flaccid, involute, almost capillary; sheaths shorter or 
longer than the blades, lax, whitish, membranous, grooved ; ligules 
long, subulate. Panicle very short and dense, often concealed 
among the leaves, contracted imto a close rounded head }—}in. 
diam., usually many-spiculate, but in depauperated states the spike- 
lets may be reduced to 2-6, or in large states the panicle may 
be lengthened to +-4in. ; branches short, sparsely hairy. Spikelets 
about ;4;in. long, pale-green. Two outer glumes subequal, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, with a green scabrid keel and thin hyaline 
margins; 3rd or flowering glume about + shorter, ovate-oblong, 
truncate, d-nerved, awn wanting. Palea wanting. Grain broadly 
oblong.—A. Spencei, Kirk i Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxix. (1897) 539 
(name only). A. emula var. spathacea, Berggr. in Minneskr. Fisiog. 
Salisk. Lund. (1877) 32, t. 7, f. 41-47. 
