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distichous like those of that genus, but all round the axis; Neesii, in 
honour of Christian Gottfried Nees von Esenbeck, the celebrated 
German botanist, who specialised on grasses as well as other plants. 
Synonym.—Danthonia nervosa, Hook., in Mueller’s Census. 
Where figured.—Hooker, Fl. Tasmania (as D. Archert) ; Agricultural 
Gazette. 
Botanical description (B. Fl., vii, 589)—A_ glabrous erect grass of 
2 or 3 feet, or even taller in marshy situations. 
Leaves very narrow in the smaller specimens, broader in the larger ones, with rather 
broad loose sheaths. 
Panicle 6 to 10 inches long, loose and narrow. 
Spikelets all pedicellate on capillary branches, usually about § inch long without the 
awns, five- to ten-flowered. 
Outer ¢ glumes varying from 2 to 4 lines long. 
Flowering glumes rather longer, the five nerves reaching to the end, and when old 
often splitting at the apex between the nerves, rather rigid and ‘scabrous- rugose 
when in fruit. 
Value as a fodder.—A tall bulky grass, nutritious and palatable to 
stock, but not very abundant. 
Havin and + ange.—Such as margins of claypans, marshes, &c., 
with fresh water. It occurs in all the Colonies, except Queensland, in 
moist localities, and it is found over the ereater part of New South 
Wales. 
63. ANISOPOGON. 
Spikelets one-flowered, large, in a loose but scarcely branched 
panicle, the rhachis of the spikelet articulate above the two outer 
glumes and produced into a slender bristle above the flower, occasion- 
ally bearing an imperfect spikelet. 
Glumes three, the two outer herbaceous; flowering glume raised 
on a short stipes (the rhachis of the spikelet), narrow, conyolute, hard, 
with three rigid awns between two small hyaline terminal lobes, the 
central awn long, twisted and bent. 
Palea hard, ending i in a long, rigid two-nerved point. 
Styles distinct. 
Ovary crowned by a tuft of hairs. 
1. Anisopogon avenaceus, R.Br. 
Botanical name.—Anisopogon—Greek, anisos unequal, pogon a beard, 
in allusion to the unequal size of the awns of this grass; avenaceus, 
Latin adjective, signifying oat-like. 
Vernacular name.—Sometimes called ‘‘ Oat-grass,”’ from the general 
resemblance of its inflorescence to that of oats. 
Where jfigured.—Trinius, as Danthonia anisopogon ; Agricultural 
Gazette. 
Botanical description (B. F1., vii, 590).—An erect glabrous grass of 
2 or 3 feet, branching at the base only. 
Leaves convolute, terminating in subulate points. 
Ligula very short, truncate, often ciliate. 
Panicle long, the large spikelets hanging from slender pedicels, 
