302 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. | Graminea. 
Beauv. Danthonia, Spreng. D. pallida, 4. Cunn. Prodr. et Herb. non Br. Avena Forsteri, Kunth, 
Agrost. (Tas. LXVIII. B.) 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands; abundant as far south as Banks’ Peninsula, Banks and So- 
lander, ete. 
A very elegant Grass, confined to New Zealand, as far as is hitherto known.—Culms tufted, 1-2 feet long, 
strict and erect, weaker in wooded localities, smooth, shining. Leaves narrow, setaceous or elongated, quite smooth 
or rough to the touch. Panicle slender, erect, contracted or rather diffuse, always narrow ; branches short. Spikelets 
+ inch long, flat, white and glistening, three- or four-flowered ; conspicuous for the reflexed awns. G?umes unequal, 
acuminate, shorter than the florets, scabrid at the back. Pedicels of the florets short or long, with long white 
scattered hairs. Lower palea scabrous, bifid, with a glabrous recurved awn; twice as long as the floret. —PLATE 
LXVIII. B. Fig. 1, spikelet; 2, floret; 3, scale; 4, ovary :—all magnified. 
Oss. Trisetum subspicatum, Pal. Beauv., a very common plant in all cold and mountainous countries of Europe, 
Asia, and America, and also found in Tasmania, Fuegia, and in Campbell’s Island, probably grows on the lofty 
New Zealand mountains: it has a dense spiked panicle, and generally downy or woolly culm and leaves. 
Gen. XX. DANTHONIA, DC. 
Spicula 2-8-flore ; floribus distichis, summo tabescente. Glum@ 2, subcarinate, mutica, subee- 
quales, flores «equantes v. superantes. Palee 2: inferior barbata, concava, multinervis, apice bifida, inter 
lacinias muticas v. aristato-subulatas aristata; arista basi complanata, torta v. brevissima, recta. Squamule 
2, integre, glabree v. pilose. Ovarium stipitatum. Caryopsis compressa, libera.—Gramina cespitosa, ple- 
rumque rigida ; folis planis v. involutis ; spiculis majusculis, pedicellatis, racemosis v. paniculatis. 
Generally harsh, tufted Grasses, growing in dry soils and climates, as in Australia, South Africa, and the South 
of Europe.—Leaves flat or involute. Panicles rather contracted, of few large often shining spikelets. Flowers two 
or more, the upper often imperfect. Glumes two, awnless, nearly equal, as long as or longer than the flowers. Lower 
palea concave, many-nerved, bearded, bifid at the point, with a long or short, flattened, twisted awn. Ovary smooth, 
stipitate. Seed compressed. (Name in honour of M. Danthoine, a French botanist.) 
1. Danthonia antarctica, Hook. fil.; elata, rigida, culmis basi crassis, foliis culmo longioribus crassis 
coriaceisque inferioribus basi intus sericeis, ligula villosa, costa valida, panicula maxima effusa, ramis 
elongatis, pedicellis sericeis, spiculis (magnitudine variis) 4-7-floris albidis nitidis, glumis insequalibus, 
flosculis distantibus multo brevioribus acutis apice integris erosis bidentatis, palea inferiore sericeo-villosa 
bifida, arista recta v. recurva palea duplo longiorebasi compressa.—Bromus antarcticus, Flora Antaret. 
p. 97. t. 54. Arundo flavescens, Banks et Sol. MSS. 
Var. a. elata; culmis validis, foliis coriaceis latiusculis intus basi sericeis, panicula densiflora, spiculis 
majusculis. 
Var. B. lawiflora ; elata, culmis foliisque ut in var. a, panicula rariflora.—Agrostis pilosa, 4. Cunn. 
Prodr. fid. Herb. Heward, non A. Rich. Flor. (Tas. LXIX. 4.) 
Var. y. parviflora ; spiculis minoribus sparsis. 
Var. 8. minor; glaberrima, culmis brevioribus, foliis setaceo-involutis, panicula pauciflora. 
Haz. Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and Solander, etc. ; top of the Ruahine range, Colenso, 
Sinclair, ete. Var. y. Southern Island, Dr. Lyall. i 
A tall and very handsome Grass, but variable in size and habit, number of spikelets, breadth of leaves, their 
texture and hairiness, denseness of panicle and length of glumes.—Culms 3-5 feet high, often as thick as the thumb 
at the base. Leaves longer than the culm, rigid, coriaceous, with a very thick midrib, furrowed; sheaths glabrous; 
ligula a transverse villous line; lamina usually silky towards the base on the upper surface. Panicle a span to a 
foot long, yellow, much branched; branches a foot long, or short, slender, often downy or silky. Spikelets white, 
