Triodia. | GRAMINEZ. 897 
Var. mucronulata, Hack. MSS.—Sheaths pilose with long hairs. Spikelets 
3-5-flowered, the outer glumes distinctly shorter than the flowering glumes, 
which are more evidently 3-toothed, the middle tooth produced into a short 
mucro. 
SoutH Isnanp: Otago—Sides of mountain-streams. Clark’s Diggings, Mount 
Cardrona, Old Man Range, Maungatua, Blue Mountains, Petrie! Var. mucronu- 
lata: Swamps in the Tasman Valley, Canterbury, 7’. F’. C. 2000-5000 ft. 
27. KQhLERIA, Pers. 
Perennial or annual grasses. Leaves narrow; ligules hyaline. 
Spikelets 2-5-flowered with the uppermost flower sterile, laterally 
compressed, shining, densely crowded in spike-like panicles ; rha- 
chilla disarticulating above the outer glumes and between the 
flowering glumes, produced beyond the uppermost flower. Two 
outer glumes persistent, empty, unequal, keeled, acute or acumi- 
nate, margins hyaline. Flowering glumes exceeding the outer 
elumes, with broader hyaline margins, 3-d-nerved, entire or bifid, 
acuminate or mucronate or shortly awned. Palea white and 
hyaline, 2-toothed. lLodicules 2. Stamens 3. Styles short, dis- 
tinct; stigmas plumose. Grain oblong, laterally compressed, free 
within the flowering glume and palea. 
Species 12 or 15, mainly in the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, 
rarer in the south temperate zone. The single New Zealand species is also found 
in South America. 
1. K. Kurtzii, Hack. in Bolet. Acad. Sc. de Cordoba, xvi. 
(1900) 261.—Culms densely tufted, erect, rather slender, glabrous 
or pubescent, 6-24 in. high. Leaves crowded near the base of the 
culms, 2-9in. long, 4-4 in. broad, flat, soft or almost flaccid, gla- 
brous or more or less pubescent, sometimes almost villous; sheaths 
long, rather tight, striate, pubescent or villous ; ligules short, trun- 
cate, ciliolate. Panicle 1-5 in. long, cylindric, usually dense and 
spike-like, but sometimes irregularly interupted or lobed; branches 
short, erect, minutely villous-pubescent. Spikelets pale-green or 
pale purplish-green, shining, about 4in. long, 2-3-flowered. Two 
outer glumes broadly hyaline, acute, 3-nerved, often scabrid on 
the keel. Flowering glumes oblong-lanceolate, glabrous or mi- 
nutely rough on the back, 5-nerved, tip minutely 2-toothed or almost 
entire, with a very short scabrid awn inserted just below the teeth. 
—K. cristata, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 305; Handb. N.Z. Fi. 
334; Buch. N.Z. Grasses, t. 38 (not of Pers.). K. micrathera, 
Griseb. mm Goett. Abh. xxi. (1879) 292 (but not Trisetum micra- 
therum, Desv.). 
SourH Isnranp: Abundant in hilly and mountainous localities throughout. 
Sea-level to 4500 ft. 
Also in temperate South America (Argentina), and probably also in Aus- 
tralia. Professor Hackel distinguishes it from the northern K. cristata by the 
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