GENERA AND SPECIES. 
Festuca. 
Erect, rather tall; spikelets $ in. or more; awns as 
long as the glumes 
Diplachne. 
Spikes slender, Pane 2 to 4 in. long, on a long 
peduncle... se : a nig? ay 
Spikes numerous in a fronts peice 
Spikelets pale-coloured ; rhachis hair-tufted under 
the glumes 
Spikelets dark- Siar rhachis glabrous or 
nearly so ee 
Sehedonorus. 
Tall ; leaves cylindrical, erect, rigid, pungent-pointed, 
glabrous, pale yellow ; panicle narrow, dense and 
spikelike... 
Distichlis. - 
Prostrate in broad patches; leaves short, pungent- 
pointed, usually spreading in 2 rows ; flowering 
stems leafy vee se a - 
Eleusine. 
Spikes digitate, usually 4; Unig closely ous 
Dwarf annual ... 
Spikes 6 to 12, aa crowed at bie anil rat the 
rhachis de 
Triodia. 
Flowering glume divided, nearly to the middle, into 
3 lobes, silky hairy ; leaf-sheaths usually viscid. 
Panicle loose and spreading ; ane dark-col- 
oured, 8- to 12-fid. 
Panicle narrow and dense; apaiceioin pale! ealowiad! 
about 6-fld. ht 
Flowering glume shortly 3- hackoea! silky hairy at ee 
base; leaf-sheaths not viscid.. 
eee tiy 
1, Spikelets rather flat; glumes rather distant. 
Spikelets 3- to 4-flowered, very numerous and minute, 
stalked, in a spreading panicle wad 
Spikelets linear, more than 6-flowered, numerous, in a 
loose panicle. 
Glumes very obtuse, truncate or emarginate 
duriuscula 
loliiformis 
Muelleri 
fusca 
litoralis 
maritima 
cruciata 
digitata 
Mitchelli 
‘pungens 
irritans 
tenella 
trichophylla 
