300 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [Graminea. 
on smooth or hairy capillary pedicels. Glumes very long, acuminate, 1-3 inch long. Flowers two or three, half as 
long as the glumes, surrounded with long, silky hairs. Lower palea ending in a straight, slightly twisted awn as 
long as the glumes.—This beautiful Grass has hitherto been found in New Zealand only ; though rarely one-flowered, 
there can, I think, be no doubt that it is Forster’s Arundo conspicua, both from Solander’s indentification and 
Trinius’s observation in the Index to his Gram. Unifl. p. 274. 
Gen. XVII. HIEROCHLOE, Gmel. 
Spieule 8-flore ; floribus lateralibus masculis, intermedio hermaphrodito. Glume 2, carinate, sub- 
equales. Palee 2, mutice v. inferior aristata, carinata; arista terminali v. dorsali, recta v. incurva, brevi. 
Squamule 9, biloba.  Fl.d Stamina 3. Fl. $ Stamina 9. Caryopsis libera, paleis obtecta.—Gramina 
odora ; foliis planis v. involutis; spiculis paniculatis, nitidis, majusculis. 
A very beautiful genus of sweet-smelling Grasses, found principally in the cold climates of both hemispheres 
and on the lofty mountains of warmer ones. One southern species is common to Tasmania, New Zealand, and 
Fuegia; another to Europe, New Zealand, and Tasmania.— Leaves soft, flat or involute. Culms tufted. Panicles 
loose or compact, of many, large, pedicelled, shining, often pale yellow spikelets. GJumes equal, keeled, with three 
almost sessile flowers, the two lower male, with three stamens, the middle or upper hermaphrodite, with two 
stamens. Palee broad, blunt, often downy; lower keeled, with a short, straight, or bent terminal or dorsal awn ; 
upper two-nerved; middle flower with shorter awns or none. Seales two, two-lobed. Seed free within the paleas. 
(Name from tepos, sacred, and xAon, a grass; the H. borealis being dedicated to the Virgin Mary.) 
1. Hierochloe redolens, Br.; folis planis scaberulis glabrisve, ligulis late ovatis obtusis, panicula 
effusa nutante, glumis flosculos «equantibus superiore nervis lateralibus ad medium attingentibus, fl. masc. 
5-nerviis pubescentibus basi subvillosis infra apicem aristatis marginibus dorsoque ciliatis, fl. hermaph. 
obtuso mucronato v. subaristato.——Dr. Prodr. in not. Fl. Antarct. v. 1. p.92. Torresia, Ram. et Schultes. 
A. Cunn. Prodr. Holcus, Forst. Prodr. Holcus Dioneus, Banks et Sol. MSS. 
Has. Throughout the Islands, common in wet places, Banks and Solander, ete. 
A large and handsome Grass, conspicuous for its delicious odour, like that of the common Vernal Grass 
(Anthovanthum) of England, that gives the sweet scent to new-made hay.— Culms leafy, densely tufted, 2-3 feet long, 
herbaceous. Leaves flat, smooth or minutely scabrid to the touch; ligula membranous, broad. Panicle nodding, 
6-10 inches long, of many shining, pale spikelets; branches capillary, hairy here and there, lower 2-3 inches long. 
Glumes shining, about + inch long, as long as the florets; outer with sometimes two lateral very short nerves at the 
base; upper three-nerved to the middle. Lower palea of the lateral flowers bearded below, downy above, the 
margins and back with long cilia, five-nerved. dwn short, inserted below the top. Lower palea of the upper 
flower smooth or downy above, with a short awn.—This fine Grass occurs also in Campbell’s Island, and one 
variety of it is frequent in Tasmania, and a second in Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands: the slight differ- 
ences between all these have been dwelt upon in the ‘ Flora Antarctica’ at length. 
2. Hierochloe dorealis, Reem. et Schultes; czespitosa, glaberrima, foliis culmo gracili brevioribus, 
panicula brevi ovata pauciflora, glumis coloratis 3-nerviis flosculis aquilongis, palea inferiore sericea mutica 
v. aristata. —Bngl. Bot. t. 2641. H. Frazeri, mihi in Fl. Antarct. note, p. 93. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands: top of Ruahine mountains, Colenso; mountains near Nelson, 
Dr. Monro. 
A very distinct-looking Grass, much smaller than H. redolens, with shorter, more strict leaves, and a small 
ovate panicle, of fewer smaller flowers. Culms a foot high, tufted. Leaves 4-8 inches long, strict, quite smooth, 
flat. Panicle 2-3 inches long, ovate. Spikelets + inch long, broad. Glumes short, acute, as long as the flowers, 
three-nerved, the lateral nerves shorter, sometimes obscure. Florets silky; outer palea with ciliated margins, and 
