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Habitat and range.—This grass is usually found on damp, sour soils ; 
often it grows on poor, rocky soils, but by no means on worthless soils 
asarule. It furnishes the principal grass of the Alang Alang fields 
of the Malay Archipelago. It is found in most parts of New South 
Wales, and in all the colonies. It is also a native of Europe, Asia, 
Africa, and America—an almost cosmopolitan grass. 
31. CHRYSOPOGON. 
Fertile spikelets one-flowered, sessile between two pedicellate male 
or barren spikelets at the end of the filiform unequal simple or divided 
branches of a terminal panicle, with sometimes one to three pairs of 
spikelets on the branch below the terminal three. 
Glumes of the fertile spikelets four, the outer one the largest, 
awnless, membranous, and many-nerved, or more rigid with the lateral 
nerves prominent and often muricate ; second glume narrow, keeled, 
pointed or produced into a fine straight awn ; third much smaller, 
very thin, and hyaline; fourth or terminal glume under the flower 
slender, flexuose, and stipes-like at the base, or dilated hyaline and two- 
lobed, with a short or long awn terminal or from between the lobes, 
twisted in the lower half and bent back above the middle as in 
Andropogon. 
Palea very small or none. 
Styles distinct. 
Frain enclosed in the glumes, but free from them. 
Pedicellate spikelets awnless with reduced glumes and usually one 
male flower. 
Spikelets 3 to 5 lines long, one fertile and two pedicellate ones to 
each branch; second glume of the fertile one awned ; awn of 
the terminal one long and rigid or sit 350 
Spikelets scarcely 14 lines long, one to three fertile besides the pedi- 
cellate ones on each branch, second glume awnless_... .. 2 C. parviflorus. 
1 C. gryllus. 
1. Chrysopogon gryllus, Trin. 
Botanical name.—Chrysopogon, from two Greek words signifying 
“golden beard,” the tuft of hairs under the spikelet bemg sometimes 
of a golden colour (very marked in C. gryllus). Gryllus—Latin, a 
cricket. Trinius took the specific name from Linneus (Andropogon 
gryllus), but it is not evident why the species is connected with a 
cricket. 
Synonym.—Andropogon gryllus, Linn., in Mueller’s Census. 
Where figured—Duthie (sectional drawing). 
Botanical description (B. Fl., vii, 537).—An erect glabrous grass of 
2 to 4 feet. 
Leaves long and narrow, with a small ligula. 
Panicle loose and spreading, 3 to 6 inches long, of numerous capillary simple 
branches mostly verticillate, of very unequal length, each bearing a single 
hermaphrodite spikelet, sessile between 2 pedicellate male ones, with a tuft of 
hairs at the base of the sessile one and on the pedicels. 
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