902 GRAMINE. [Poa. 
Norts Isuanp: Mount Hikurangi, Petrie! Mount Egmont, Buchanan ! 
1. F. C.; Tararua Mountains, Buchanan! Townson! SoutH IsLanp, STE- 
wart Istanp: Abundant in damp alpine and subalpine localities. 2500- 
6500 ft. 
Separated without any difficulty from P. foliosa, with which it was placed 
by Hooker, by the different habit, much smaller size, shorter narrower and 
smoother leaves, smaller and proportionately broader panicle, and less promi- 
nently nerved flowering glumes, which are less silky at the base, and almost 
smooth above. 
3. P. litorosa, Cheesem.— Perennial, densely tufted, perfectly 
smooth and polished. Culms numerous, branched at the base, 
erect, quite glabrous, 6-24in. high. Leaves usually longer than 
the culms, very narrow, linear-filiform, gradually narrowed upwards 
into an almost pungent point, closely involute, terete, rigid and 
coriaceous, faintly striate; sheaths long, tight, smooth; ligules 
ovate, membranous. Panicle rather small, 1-3in. long, ovate to 
ovate-oblong or linear-oblong, rather dense, erect or inclined, 
sparingly branched; branches short, simple or divided, scaberulous. 
Spikelets much compressed, ovate-oblong, ++ in. long, 3—7-flowered. 
Two outer glumes slightly unequal, keeled, not half as long as the 
spikelet, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, 3-5-nerved. Flowering 
glumes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, prominently 5-nervyed, 
sometimes with short crisped hairs on the callus and lower part of 
the keel, but frequently without them, the whole of the glume 
densely minutely scabrid. Palea about + shorter than the glume, 
linear-oblong, bidentate, ciliate-scabrid on the keels. Stamens 3; 
anthers long, 3 the length of the palea.—Festuca scoparia, Hook. f. 
Fl. Antarct. 1. 98; Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 308; Handb. N.Z. Fi. 341; 
Buch. N.Z. Grasses, t. 5A. 
SourH [stanp: Otago—Abundant on the cliffs of the east and southern 
coasts, from Port Chalmers southwards, Lyall, Kirk! Petrie! H. J. 
Matthews! Srewart Istanp, THE SNARES, AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL Is- 
LANDS, ANTIPODES IsLAND: Plentiful on rocks near the sea. 
A very distinct species, with a good deal of the habit and appearance of 
small states of Festuca littoralis, which no doubt induced Sir J. D. Hooker to 
place it in the same genus. But it has the keeled flowering glumes and puncti- 
form hilum of Poa; and, as Professor Hackel has pointed out to me, must be 
transferred to that genus. As there is already a Poa scoparia (Kunth, Rev. 
Gram. ii. 535) a new name is required. Hooker describes the flowering glume 
as ‘‘ basi longe villoso-barbata,”’ but it is frequently quite free from hairs. 
4. P. ramosissima, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.i. 101.—Culms densely 
tufted, decumbent at the base for 6-12in., simple, brown, rigid, 
many-noded, naked or clothed with the remains of the old leaves ; 
upper portion ascending and much fasciculately branched ; branches 
slender, flaccid, leafy, 2-4 in. long. Leaves longer than the culms, 
narrow, ;;—-tin. broad, flat, flaccid, quite smooth and glabrous, 
obsoletely nerved; sheaths long, slender, striate; ligules oblong, 
truncate. Panicle narrow, erect, green, 1-2in. long, 4in. broad ; 
