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1. Koeleria phleoides, Pers. Cat's-taiJ Kreleria. 

 Annual, with erect or ascending, glal)roii.s stems; leaves 

 flat, narrow, villou.s, with a short, truncate, torn 

 ligule ; panicle dense. spikelike, 2-9 cm. (J-3i in.) 

 long, cylindrical or oblong, often slightly lobed, whitish- 

 green, spikelets 4 mm. long, 4-6-flowered ; outer glumes 

 unequal, hairy at least on the keel, shorter than the 

 flowers ; flowering glume 2- 

 toothed, with a short awn in 

 the notch : palea shorter, deeply 

 bifid. 



Roadsides and pastures. — 

 Sept. -Nov. — Mediterranean rei- 

 gion. 



2. K. Michelii, Co.sson. 

 Small downy annual ; leaves 

 short. very narrow; panicle 

 rather loose when flowering, 

 whitish, 2-9 cm. (1-3^ in.) long; 

 spikelets 3-4-flowered; outer 

 glumes very unequal, the lower 

 one minute" and bristle-like, 

 the upper one 4 times as long 

 and equalling or exceeding the 

 flowers ; flowering glume nar- 

 row-cylindrical with an awn 

 half as long as the flower, rising 

 from the notch between the 2 

 teeth ; palea only half as long as 

 the flowering glume. 



Blount Lofty Range; Flinders Range near Gladstone; 

 Kangaroo Island. — Sept. -Nov. -Mediterranean region. 



3. K. cristata, Peis. Crested K. Perennial with 

 erect or ascending stems, glabrous or downy at summit, 

 leaves narrow, flat or folded, more or less villous; ligule 

 .short, truncate; panicle 4-15 cm. (1|-G in.) long, lobed and 

 often interrupted near the base; spikelets 6 mm. (i in.) 

 outer glume-s unequal, a little shorter 

 flowering glume acuminate, shining : 



Koeleria phleoides. 



District. Sept. -Nov. — Europe ; 



tem- 



long, 2-4-flowered ; 

 than the flowers ; 

 palea bifid. 



South-Eastern 

 perate Asia; America. 



Cyiiosiims cristattis, L. Crested Dog's-tail. Perennial 

 with narrow leaves; long, narrow, 1-sided, spikelike panicle; 

 outer spikelets of each cluster sterile and resembling pin- 

 nate bracts ; innei- spikelets fertile, 3-7-flowered ; all the 

 glumes very shortly awned, the outer ones shorter than 

 the flowers. — Sown for pasture in moist places and suIj- 

 .spontancous. — Europe. 



