864 GRAMINEA, (Agrostis. 
NortH Isnanp: Omatangi, near Lake Taupo, Berggren! Lake Rotoaira, 
Kirk ! Mount Egmont, 7. F.C.; Tararua Ranges, 7’. P. Arnold! Sout 
Istanp: Nelson—Mount Owen, 7. F. C. Canterbury—Broken River Basin, 
Enys! Kirk! T. F. C.; Mackenzie Plains, 7. 7. C. Otago—Not uncommon 
in the eastern and southern portions of the province, Petrie! Kirk! Alti- 
tudinal range usually from 1500 to 4500 ft., but descending to sea-level in 
Southland. 
3. A. Muelleri, Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 576.—Culms compactly 
tufted, slender, strict, erect, smooth, 1—2-noded, the nodes near the 
base of the culm, 2-9in. high. Leaves crowded near the base of 
the culms and usually much shorter than them, very narrow, often 
filiform, strict, erett, involute, smooth and glabrous ; sheaths long, 
grooved, glabrous ; ligules scarious, narrow-oblong. Panicle very 
narrow, almost spike-like, $-2in. long, erect, purplish or pale- 
green ; rhachis smooth or obscurely scabrid ; branches in fascicles of 
2-5, unequal, short, erect, capillary, scabrid. Spikelets about +, in. 
long. Two outer glumes slightly unequal, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
green or purplish, usually scabrid or ciliate on the keel, but some- 
times glabrous, margins thin and hyaline; 3rd or flowering glume 
about 4 shorter, thin and membranous, truncate, minutely denti- 
culate, smooth, faintly 5-nerved, awn usually absent but sometimes 
present from the middle of the back. Palea wanting. Grain 
oblong.—A. gelida, F’. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. (1855) 48 (not of 
Trin.). A. canina var. Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 828; Buch. N.Z. 
Grasses, t. 20,f. a. (2) A. subulata, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 95, t. 58. 
Var. paludosa, Hack. MS.—Culms 3-noded, the uppermost node higher up 
the culm than m the type. Panicle broader and laxer. Spikelets straw- 
coloured. 
NortH Isnanp: Ruahine Mountains, Colenso, A. Hamilton! SoutH 
IsLAND : Common in mountain districts throughout. Var. paludosa: Swamps 
by the Broken River, Kirk! Tasman Valley, 7. F. C. 2500-5500 ft. Also 
in Australia. 
Very closely allied to A. Dyeri, from which it only differs in its smaller 
size and narrow panicle. Var. paludosa has a very distinct appearance, and I 
had placed it as a separate species, but Professor Hackel considers that it is 
only entitled to the rank of a variety. 
4. A. Dyeri, Petrie mm Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxu. (1890) 441.— 
Perennial ; innoyation-shoots intravaginal, not clothed at the base 
with leafless scales. Culms tufted, 4-18 in. high, slender, erect or 
geniculate at the base, glabrous, 2-3-noded, the upper node con- 
siderably below the culm. Leaves shorter than the culms, 4-1 im. 
broad, flat or convolute when dry, striate, scaberulous on the 
margins and both surfaces; sheaths terete, grooved, glabrous, the 
upper long; ligules oblong, obtuse, membranous, lacerate. Panicle 
elongated, usually from 2 to 5 in. long, but shorter in depauperated 
forms, erect, usually more or less contracted, rarely open, green or 
brownish-green ; rhachis slender, scaberulous above ; branches in 
rather distant fascicles placed alternately on opposite sides of the 
