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Gluames acute. 
Spikelets crowded on the long branches of a 
narrow panicle ... ie 
Spikelets distant; 
erect, 
capillary .. 
panicle-branches 
11. Spikelets very flat; glumes closely imbricate. 
Base of the stems glabrous, 
thickened. 
Spikelets in small globose or oblong clusters, sessile 
along an unbranched rhachis. Stamens usually 2 
Spikelets erect, scattered or clustered in a simple 
or branched panicle. Stamens usually 3 
Spikelets broad, crowded on a short almost simple 
rhachis; nerves of the palea with long rigid hairs 
Spikelets narrow, clustered along the erect branches 
of a narrow panicle; palea truncate, glabrous ... 
Base of the stems and short sheath of radical leaves 
thickened into a bulbous woolly-hairy base. 
Spikelets shortly stalked, nearly 2 lines broad; 
base of the flowering glumes woolly ; 
Spikelets about ? line broad, glabrous 
Spikelets seasile;, above 1 line broad, glabrous 
not at all or scarcely 
111. Spikelets terete or nearly so, very narrow ; 
glumes closely appressed. 
Spikelets short-stalked, in a small panicle, rather ob- 
tuse, 10- to 30- flowered 
Spikelets sessile, obtuse, 12- to 50- fowebed: risually 
clustered, often incurved y) 
Poa. 
1. Lodicules disunited. Stigmatic plumes not 
branched; flower-glumes keeled. 
Perennial; grain adnate to the palea; panicle narrow 
and dense, the spikelets crowded. Tall, rigid, 
coast-grass sine 
Perennials; grain free eS he ee 
Stems knotty at the base; leaves flat; panicle 
short 
Panicle dense and dennctede or spreading ; eaves 
flat, = casei incurved, ee in Fone 
points .. : 
Annual, lees flat fouiks sane ite dum peassids 
flowering glume 7- to 11- nerved, the keel ciliate at 
the base with long hairs 
FLORA OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA 
leptocarpa 
pilosa 
diandra 
Brownii 
concinna 
speciosa 
laniflora 
chaetophylla 
eriopoda 
lacunaria 
falcata 
Billardieri 
nodosa 
caespitosa 
lepida 
