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Tribe vi.—ASTREPTR. 
Sub-tribe i.—Pappophoree. 
65. Amphipogon. 68. Astrebla. 
66. Echinopogon. 69. Triraphis. 
67. Pappophorum. 70. Triodia. 
65. AMPHIPOGON. 
Spikelets one-flowered, nearly sessile in a dense panicle contracted 
into a head or short spike, the rhachis of the spikelet articulate above 
the two outer glumes, and not continued beyond the flower. 
Gluwmes three, two outer persistent, membranous, three-nerved, acute 
or tapering to an awnlike point, rarely three-fid. 
Flowering glume raised on a short hairy stipes (the rhachis of the 
spikelet), closed round the flower, deeply divided into three narrow 
lobes tapering into straight points or awns. 
Palea usually as long as the flowering glume, deeply divided into 
two narrow rigid lobes or awns. 
Styles united at the base, free upwards. 
Grain enclosed in the slightly hardened upper glume. 
Perennial grasses with conyolute terete or subulate leaves. 
2. Amphipogon strictus, R.Br. 
Botanical name.—Amphipogon, Greek amphi, around, pogon, a beard, 
in allusion to the short hairy stipes of the flowering glume ; strictus, 
Latin, rigid, which is the habit of the plant. 
Where figured.— Agricultural Gazette. 
Botanical description (B. F1., vii, 597). 
Stems from a horizontal rhizome or tufted branching base erect and slender, usually 
above 1 foot high. , 
Leaves rather short, erect, subulate, glabrous. 
Spikelike panicle dense, oblong or cylindrical, 4 to 13 inches long, but little branched. 
Outer glumes broad, concave, faintly three-nerved, almost scarious, entire when 
perfect, the outer one about 2 lines, the inner rather longer and more acute. 
Flowering glume on the short hairy stipes shorter than the outer glume, with two 
short rows of hairs on the back, divided into three rigid ciliate linear lobes or . 
awns longer than the entire part. 
Palea narrow, deeply divided into two rigid lobes similar to those of the flowering 
glume. 
Seed separable from the membranous pericarp. 
Value as a fodder.—A rather harsh grass not readily eaten by stock 
except when quite young. 
Fungus recorded on this grass.—Ustilago Tepperi, Lud. 
Habitat and range.—Found in all the Colonies except Tasmania, 
and pretty well all over the Colony of New South Wales. 
