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Panicle very loose. Awnvery small and straight above the middle 
of the flowering glume or reduced to a small point near 
the summit ete od on He ae ye ... 12. D. scabra. 
Panicle dense and spikelike. Leaves broad. Awn small and 
straight near the summit of the flowering glume ... ... 13. D. nivalis. 
Flowering glume twice as long as the truncate outer ones. Spikelets 
very small in a loose panicle, awnless, or with a minute 
point on the flowering glume. Outer glumes not keeled, 
truncate. Stems 1 to 14 feet... as Ene aera 15. D. brevighumis. 
2. Deyeuxia Forsteri, Kunth. 
Botanical name.—Deyeuxia, m honour of Deyeux; Forsteri, in honour 
of the Forsters, Johan Reinhold and George, the latter of whom accom- 
panied Captain Cook as botanist during his second voyage of circum- 
navigation. 
Synonym.—Agrostis Solandri, F.v.M. in Census; A. emula, R. Br. 
Vernacular names.—“ 'Toothed Bent-grass”’; the “ Winter-grass ” 
of Bacchus. 
Where figured.—Buchanan (as A. emula), Agricultural Gazette. 
Botanical description (B.FI., vu, 579)—A. common grass, very 
variable in habit, usually erect or decumbent; 1 to 2 feet high or rather 
more, with flat, rather flaccid leaves, but sometimes smaller, with 
convolute or fine, almost filiform, leaves. 
Panicles usually very loose and spreading when fully out, 6 inches to 1 foot long, 
with long capillary divided branches in distant whorls or clusters. 
Spikelets very numerous. 
Outer glumes narrow, very pointed, 1 to 14 lines long, or in some varieties, nearly 
2 lines. 
Flowering glume about half as long, thin and almost hyaline, broad, enveloping the 
flower, truncate, or very shortly and unequally two- or four-toothed, sprinkled 
or densely covered with hairs on the back, rarely almost glabrous, surrounded 
by the hairs of the rhachis, with a fine twisted awn attached about the middle 
of the back. 
Palea very narrow. 
Rhachis produced into a bristle, usually very short and ciliate with a few long hairs. 
Botanical notes —Normally with a very hairy flowering glume. Var. 
Jeviglumis with flowering glume nearly glabrous, except marginal cilia. 
Lake George, N.S.W., and in Victoria. 
Value as a fodder.—A very abundant grass in the cooler parts of 
the year, disappearing during the hot summer months. It produces 
large quantities of excellent pasture. As the seed ripens the panicles 
break off the stalk and blow about, frequently accumulating in large 
quantities against obstacles. Here follow a Victorian and a New 
Zealand account of the grass :— 
“Tt is the first grass to spring up after summer rains, and keeps 
up a supply of nutritive herbage. During winter it seeds freely. I 
consider it a useful winter grass. When summer comes it dries up, 
making room for other sorts.” (Bacchus.) 
“Often forming a prominent part of the pasture on dry, stony, or 
sandy soils. It is valuable as a sheep-grass in such places, probably 
proving perennial when prevented by grazing from ripening its seed, 
the permanence of such grasses often depending on their capability to 
stole or form off-sets or branches at the roots before flowering and 
