Festuca.| GRAMINACEAE. 533 
Leaves narrow, conyolute, erect, scaberulous. Panicle 2—4° long, narrow, 
usually secund, slightly compound, its rays single and only the lowest 
dividing near the base. Spikelets sessile or nearly so, crowded or clustered 
along the short branches, very narrow, often curved, 4—12” long and 
about '/2 broad, with 12—50 or even more flowers, the rhachis scarcely 
articulate. Flowering glumes closely appressed, scarcely 1“ long, obtuse, 
hyaline at the end, the keel and a lateral nervé on each side very pro- 
minent. Paleae rather shorter, curved, ciliate, persistent. Styles slender. 
Grain ovoid, flattened. — Benth. in Fl. Austral. VII. 649. — Poa falcata, 
Gaud. — E. nana, Munro. 
Oahu (M. & B. no. 44). — Probably a late arrival from Australia, where it is spread 
through all Colonies except Tasmania. 
ong, finely pointed, long-ciliate at and below the mouth of the 
sheath. Panicle long-exserted, ovate-oblong, open, 3—6/ long, the rhachis 
ones 1-nerved, acute, 8 ‘ 
fertile ones ovate-obtuse, with 2 marginal nerves besides th 
fringed with long ciliae. Grain minute ovoid, reddish-olivaceous, shining. 
— Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 431. — Poa plumosa, Retz. 
The present species, a common grass in tropical Asia, is quoted by Trinius as a native 
also of the Hawaiian Islands. I only know it as of late accidental introduction with 
China. 
living plants from 
31. FESTUCA, L. 
Spikelets in panicles or racemes 3- to many - flowered, the axis articulate. 
Outer empty glumes 2, unequal, mostly keeled. Flowering glumes charta- 
ceous or nearly coriaceous, convex, not carinate unless near the apex, 
3—5-nerved, acute, mucronate or often ending in an awn. aleae bi- 
carinate. Lodicules emarginate or bifid. Stamens 3, or rarely 2 or 1. 
Ovary mostly glabrous. Styles terminal, short, with feathery stigmas. 
Grain linear-oblong, adherent to the palea. 
A large genus of the cold and temperate regions 
ied a glume with a long awn; a weak annual 
g glume not awned: ogee 
Flowering glume 3-nerved, ciliate along the nerves. = 1. F. Sandwicensis. 
Flowering glume 3-nerved, the nerves not ciliate - = 3. F. drymeia. 
1. F. Sandwicensis, Reichardt, in Ber. 4. k, Akad. d. Wissensch. in 
Wien, LXXV, 726. — «Perennial. Stems straight, glabrous, about 
of the whole world. 
: ; : 2. F. myurus. 
