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907 12 bis. P. litorosa, Cheesem.—A tall densely tufted species, 
often forming tussocks 2-3 ft. high. Culms numerous, branched 
at the base, leafy, quite glabrous, 2-3-noded. Leaves much 
longer than the culms, narrow linear- filiform, graduall 
narrowed upwards, strongly involute for their whole length, 
coriaceous, glabrous, striate; sheaths very long, smooth, 
shining ; ligules narrow, horizontal, inconspicuous. Panicle 
3-6 in. long, suberect or slightly inclined, sparingly branched, 
few-flowered ; rhachis slender, scabrid ; branches scaberulous, 
8-5-spiculate. Spikelets much compressed, ovate-oblong, about 
+in. long, 4-5-flowered. Two outer glumes subequal, lanceo- 
late, acute, 3-nerved, scabrid on the back and nerves. Flower- 
ing glumes oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, prominently 
5-nerved ; callus and base with a tuft of long crisped hairs, the 
whole surface densely minutely scaberulous. Palea a quarter 
shorter than the glume, bidentate, ciliate-scabrid on the keels. — 
Festuca scoparia, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1. 98. 
AUCKLAND AND CaMPBELL Is~ANDS: Abundant in rocky places near 
the sea, Hooker, Kirk! 
Easily distinguished from P. Astont by the larger size and stouter 
habit, larger spikelets with fewer flowers, and obtuse or subacute flowering 
glumes. 
905 P. pusilla.—Bluff Hill and Dog Island, Foveaux Strait, 
Dr. Cockayne. 
906 P. dipsacea.—Mr. Townson has collected this in several 
localities in the south-west of the Nelson Provincial District. 
907 12 ter. P. Hamiltoni, 7’. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. 
(1895) 353.—‘‘ Culms leafy to the base of the panicle, erect, 
6-9 in. high. Leaves flat, spreading, exceeding the panicle; 
ligule ovate, laciniate, the laciniz produced into long hair-like 
points. Panicle 3-4in. long, strict, narrow, lower branches 
1-2in. long. Spikelets pedicellate, 2-3-flowered; outer glumes 
unequal, the outermost less than half the length of the inner. 
Flowers never webbed at the base. Flowering glume narrow- 
lanceolate, 5-nerved; lodicules ovate, acute. Grain large, 
cylindrica}.” 
MacquaRi& Isuanp: A. Hamilton. 
‘© A distinct species allied to P. foliosa, Hook. f., and P. anceps, Forst., 
but distinguished from both by the leaves exceeding the culms, the laciniate 
ligule, the smaller spikelets, and unequal flowering-glumes; also from 
P. foliosa by the longer pedicels, very short styles, and cylindrical grain.”’ 
The above species was accidentally omitted in the body of this work. 
I have seen no specimens, and Kirk’s description is not sufficiently precise * 
to allow its systematic position to be made out with certainty. 
