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very shining, 4-3 inch long, five- to seven-flowered. Glumes unequal, acute, erose or toothed at the tip. Florets 
on a silky rachis, 4—4 inch long. Lower palea deeply bifid, seven-nerved, very silky, especially at the base and 
margins, with long shining hairs; awn twice as long as the palea, straight or recurved, very flat below, seldom and 
only sparingly twisted. Ovary quite glabrous.—This Grass, which is a native of Lord Auckland’s Group, is figured 
and erroneously referred to Bromus in the ‘Flora Antarctica,’ from which genus it is to be distinguished by the 
awn being sometimes twisted and by the ovary being glabrous. Cunningham refers the var. laxiflora to Agrostis, 
though his specimens have four or five florets. 
2. Danthonia rigida, Raoul; rigida, elata, vaginis subsericeis, foliis involutis glabris, panicula ampla 
glabra, glumis 3-floris lanceolatis acuminatis flosculis sequilongis, palea inferiore dorso marginibus basique 
sericea profunde bifida, arista basi compressa torta— Raoul, Choix de Plantes, $.19. (Tap. LXIX. A.) 
Has. Middle Island: Akaroa, on stony mountains, Raoud. 
I have only an imperfect specimen of this from M. Raoul, which closely resembles the last in habit and general 
appearance, and may prove a variety of it; but it differs in the longer glumes, fewer florets, and less silky pales, as 
also, according to M. Raoul’s description, in the silky sheaths of the leaves. —PLATE LXIX. 4. Fig. 1, spikelet ; 
2, floret; 3, scale; 4, ovary:—all magnified. 
3. Danthonia Žromoides, Hook. fil.; glaberrima, foliis culmo longioribus involutis, collo barbato, 
panicula lanceolata contracta, ramis pubescentibus, spiculis magnis 6-floris, flosculis glumis ovato-lanceolatis 
acutis multo longioribus supremis incompletis, rachi villosa, palea inferiore dorso basique sericeo-pilosa 
superne puberula apice breviter bicuspidata, arista recta basi plana palea subduplo longiore, palea superiore 
carinis scabris, ovario glaberrimo, squamulis obovatis ciliatis. (Tas. LX VIII. 4.) 
Has. Northern Island, Stephenson. 
Unlike the other species in general appearance, and more resembling Bromus mollis, but the ovary appears 
perfectly glabrous.—Culms a foot or so high, quite smooth and glabrous. Leaves involute, longer than the culm, 
numerous, glabrous, except at the ligula, which is represented by silky hairs. Panicle 4-5 inches long, contracted ; 
branches downy. Spikelets yellow-green, not shining, 2 inch long (without the awns), six- or seven-flowered ; rachis 
silky.  Glumes unequal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, much shorter than the spikelet. Lower palea with long silky hairs 
at the base, margin, and back, smooth or faintly downy above; its summit split into two cuspidate conniving points ; 
awn twice as long as the palea, straight, flattened below. Upper palea shortly bifid, nearly as long as the lower, 
with long silky hairs at the base and margins, and two scabrid keels. Scales obcuneate or obovate, ciliated with 
long hairs. Anthers linear, elongate. Ovary quite glabrous.—I have only two specimens of this, and hence some 
allowance must be made for probable variations in size and hairiness of parts —PraTeE LXVIII. 4. Fig. 1, floret; 
2, upper palea; 3, scale; 4, stamen; 5, ovary :—all magnified. 
4. Danthonia pilosa, Br.; culmis foliis setaceis vaginisque plus minusve molliter laxe patentim pilosis, 
panicula coarctata lanceolata, spiculis 6-floris glumis brevioribus, palea inferiore basi medioque barbata, 
fasciculis superioribus pilorum raris brevibus, aristis lateralibus elongatis palea longioribus, glumis inclusis 
exsertisve intermedia torta flosculo bis ter longiore. —Br. Prodr. Trin. Sp. Gram. v. 1. t. 51. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands: Bay of Islands, etc., Sinclair, efe. ; Canterbury, Lyall. 
A slender, tufted, rigid, wiry Grass.—Leaves setaceous, and culms (a span to 2 feet high) more or less covered 
with long scattered hairs. Panicle contracted, lanceolate or ovate, pale-green, 13—3 inches long. Spikelets erect, 
shining, with brown exserted awns, six-flowered, + inch long. Glumes longer than the florets. Lower palea with 
a tuft of silky hairs at the base, and a few small tufts above the middle; lateral awns twice as long as the palea, as 
long or longer than the glumes, half as long as the twisted middle awn. —A very common Tasmanian plant, also 
found at Port Jackson. 
5. Danthonia gracilis, Hook. fil.; foliis filiformi-setaceis culmisque gracilibus patentim pilosis, pani- 
cula subsimplici elongata contracta pauciflora, glumis sub-4-floris flosculis longioribus, palea inferiore basi 
