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Sxction I].—MonaAcHATHERA. 
Panicle almost reduced to a raceme or very short. Flowering 
glumes with a broad obliquely turbinate hard base and ciliate with 
long hairs, the awn shorter or scarcely longer than the lobes. 
Spikelets distant, in an almost simple raceme. Lobes of the 
flowering glumes eee two or three times as long as 
the base ... Se eae . 2. D. bipartita. 
Spikelets few, in a very atest ae Tite oe the es 
glumes not longer than the base... bas ad . 3. D. carphoides, 
Section IJ].—EvpANTHONIA. 
Flowering glume ovoid or oblong at the base, scarcely oblique, 
ciliate at least at the base. Awn longer than the lateral lobes. 
Panicle loose. Spikelets numerous. Hairs of the flowering glume 
marginal and scattered, or in longitudinal series on the back ; 
lateral lobes acute or scarcely awned .. a2 ie . 4, D. pallida. 
Panicle rather dense. Flowering glumes very small, with eigen 
long hairs, lateral lobes very short, with long awns. Leaves 
long and filiform... ae ae Bs wis . 5. D. longifolia. 
Panicle narrow or dense. Flowering glumes oblong, with “me 
marginal cilia, but very few hairs on the back. 
Stems stout, 3 to 5 feet high. Leaves Jong; with long loose 
sheaths. Panicle branched ... . 6. D. robusta. 
Stems under 2 feet high. Leaves narrow. Panicle oie = 
a single raceme, or the lower panicles with two spikelets... 7. D. racemosa. 
Stems under 2 feet high. Leaves very narrow. Panicle dense 8. D. pilosa. 
Panicle dense or rather loose. Flowering glumes oblong, with a 
ring of long hairs at or below the base of the lobes. Outer 
glumes not much exceeding the cai Leaves narrow, 
but not setaceous.... ; .. 9. D. semiannularis. 
Panicle small, few-flowered. Miaseane Sion pie with long 
hairs, the lobes broad, not longer than the base. Small 
Alpine plant ... eas as ahi oe as => Ll. D. pauciflora. 
1. Danthonia paradoxa, R.Br. 
Botanical name.—Danthonia, in honour of M. Danthoine, a French 
botanist (none of his works are mentioned in Pritzel’s Thesaurus). 
Paradoxa, Latin, something unexpected. This species is of unusual 
appearance for a Danthonia. 
Botanical description (B. Fl., vu, 591). 
Stems 2 to 3 feet high. 
Leaves long and narrow, glabrous. 
Panicle very loose, 3 to 4 inches long, with long capillary divided branches at length 
spreading. 
Spikelets pedicellate, flat, three- or four-flowered, 3 to 4 lines long. 
Outer empty glumes rather rigid, acute, 2 to 23 lines long. 
Flowering glumes shorter, very shortly hairy or pubescent below the middle, the two 
lobes shorter than the base, broad, shortly nerved, unawned. 
Central awn not exceeding them, somewhat flattened and brown at the base as in 
other species, but rarely long enough to show any twist. 
Botanical notes—The almost glabrous spikelets haye much the 
appearance of those of a Poa, but the structure is quite that of a short- 
awned Danthonia (Benth.) 
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