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6. Glyceria ramigera, F.v.M. 
Botanical names.—Ramigera—Latin, ramus, a branch; gero, I bear, 
referring to the branching habit of the grass. 
Synonym.—Poa ramigera, F.v.M. 
Vernacular names.—* Cane Grass,” “ Bamboo Grass.” 
Where figured.—Agr cultural Gazette. 
Botanical description (B. ¥1., vu, 659).—A_ tall glabrous rigid, almost 
bamboo-like grass, branched at the base, and often bearing clusters 
of branches higher up. 
Leaves convolute and flat, few and short on the flowering stems. 
Panicle 4 to 8 inches long, loosely ovate or at length spreading. 
Spikelets rather numerous, usually 3 to 5 lines long with six to twelve flowers, but 
sometimes longer, the rhachis glabrous. 
Outer glumes narrow, hyaline, acute, faintly one-nerved. 
Flowering glumes distant, about 14 lines long, broad and concave, hyaline, three- 
naENee, the nerves all short, the central one not reaching much above the 
middle. 
Grain not seen ripe, but apparently that of Glyceria. 
Value as a fodder.—Stock only eat the young shoots of this grass. 
Other uses—A_ tall cane-like species, growing plentifully in large 
detached tussocks in “‘ clay pans,” or as they are locally termed “cane 
swamps.” It is largely used for thatching purposes, for which it is 
admirably adapted. Roofs twenty years old, made of this grass, are 
standing, and are waterproof still. 
Habitat and range-—F ound in all the Colonies except Tasmania. An 
interior species, found in clay soil lable to inundation. 
96. BROMUS. 
Spikelets several-flowered, oblong or lanceolate, pedicellate, erect or 
drooping in a more or less branched panicle, the rhachis of the spikelet 
articulate between the flowering glumes, glabrous or scabrous- 
pubescent. 
Outer empty glumes acute or fine-pointed, unawned. 
Flowering glumes convex on the back, five- or seven-nerved, the 
hyaline apex usually shortly bifid, the midrib produced into a straight 
or curved awn free from a little below tne apex. 
Palea nearly as long as the glume, the two prominent nerves usually 
scabrous-ciliate. 
Ovary obovate, crowned by a hairy membranous appendage, the 
very short distinct styles more or less lateral. 
Grain flattened, adhering to the palea, and often more or less to the 
base of the glume. 
2. Bromus arenarius, Labill. 
Botanical name.—Bromus, from the Greek word for a wild oat, 
arenarius, Latin for sandy, in allusion to the situations in which some 
of these grasses grow. 
