10. Panicum Baileyi, Benth. 
Botanical name.—Barleyi, im honor of Frederick Manson Bailey, 
the well-known colonial botanist of Queensland. 
Botanical description (B.F1., vii, 471). —A glabrous rather slender 
grass of 1} to 2 feet, with the inflorescence of P. parviflorum, but the 
spikelets rather of P. divaricatissimum. 
Leaves flat, narrow, the /igula shortly prominent, scarious, not ciliate. 
Panicle of several simple filiform branches of 3 or 4 inches, all distant or the upper 
ones rather crowded, or the lower ones sometimes clustered, not verticillate. 
Spikelets narrow-ovoid, rather acute, nearly 1 line long, mostly in pairs, one on a 
much longer pedicel than the other, or in the lower part of the branch, the longer 
pedicel with two or three spikelets. 
Outer glume very small, ovate, one-nerved. 
Second and third glumes nearly equal, fringed with rather long hairs spreading when 
in fruit, the second usually five-nerved, the third rather broader and seven-nerved. 
Fruiting glume acute, smooth, and shining. 
Value as a fodder.—“Very near P. parviflorum in general appearance, 
and, like that species, a good pasture or hay grass; it attains the 
height of from 2 to 4 feet, and is plentifully supplied with leaves. 
It is usually met with on good soil.” (Bailey.) Doubtless a nutri- 
tious grass, but we require information in regard to New South Wales 
experience of it. 
Habitat and range.—Northern New South Wales and Queensland. 
Szries IJ.—TRIcHAcHNES. 
Spikelets silky-hairy, or fringed with long hairs, sessile, or shortly 
pedicellate, clustered, or rarely in pairs along the rhachis of the 
simple spike-like panicle, or of the two or few long erect branches. 
Spike-like branches, few or spike single. Spikelets mostly clustered, 
1 to 14 lineslong, the outer glume present, but small and often 
concealed by the long silky hairs na 12. P. leucopheum 
Spike-like branches few. Spikelets 2 to 2} lines long, fringed with 
long hairs connected by a prominent nerve or membrane. 
Glumes with fine points... a eit sie Bie ...13. P. semialatum 
12. Panicum leucopheum, Humb. et Bonpl. 
Botanical name.—Leucopheum, a Latinised form of two Greek 
words (leucos, white, and phaios, brown), denoting a grey, or russet, 
or brown dusky colour, in allusion to the appearance of the inflores- 
cence. 
Vernacular name.—“ Cotton Grass” of the United States. This 
name is sometimes adopted for this grass in Australia. 
Where figured.—Agricultural Gazette. 
