FORAGE PLANTS. 95 
According to Mr. Bailey it produces good pasture feed, and 
is relished by stock of all kinds. It is a short, thickly-growing 
species, peculiar to back country; seeds in September and 
October. 
South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queens- 
land. 
97- Neurachne Munroi, “v.47, (Syn. Panicum Munrot, F.v.M.); 
BP le, vii., 508. 
A very rare grass, peculiar to the back country, and only 
found amongst Mulga scrubs (Acacia aneura and allied species). 
Interior of South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales. 
98. Oplismenus compositus, Beauv., (Syn. Panicum compositum, 
Linn.; Orthopogon compositus, R.Br.) ; B.F1., vii., 491. 
This is a useful grass for covering ground under the shade of 
trees. It is not of much use for fodder, as stock seldom touch it. 
Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. 
99. Oplismenus setarius, var., Rem. e¢ Schult., (Syn. O. emulus, 
Kunth ; Panicum imbecille, Trin.; Orthopogon camulus, 
R.Br.; Hekaterosachne elatior, Steud.) ; B.FI., vii., 492. 
Under Sefarta glauca in Muell. Cens., p. 130. 
“Slender Panic Grass.” 
A sparse-foliaged grass, not adapted for pasture, its usual 
habitation being under the shelter of bush. It may be termed an 
unsocial grass, as it is most commonly found growing in isolated 
patches, and it probably could not exist under a struggle for 
place with grasses of more robust habit on open land. Cattle eat 
this grass readily, but their relish for it must be greatly lessened 
by the large amount of foreign matter, such as dead leaves, with 
which it is usually associated ; it may, therefore, be classed with 
some other bush grasses as an auxiliary to supplement neigh- 
bouring pastures during .dry seasons. (Buchanan, Judigenous 
Grasses of .New Zealand.) 
South Australia and Victoria, to Northern Australia, 
