Graminee. | FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 309 
brevioribus, palea inferiore 5-nervi acuminata subsericea v. glaberrima basi barbata.—FJora Antarct. 
2. 99. £. 55. 
Has. Middle Island: Port William, Zyall. 
Also a littoral Grass, found first in Lord Auckland and Campbell’s Islands, where it grows to a great size and 
3 feet high. Milford Sound specimens are only a span long, quite glabrous.— Culms short, tufted, leafy at the base. 
Leaves coriaceous (not rigid), plane or keeled and compressed; shorter than the culm (in New Zealand specimens). 
Ligula conical, membranous. Panicle inclined, effuse, many-flowered. Spikelets 24-3 lines long, four- to six- 
flowered. Glumes smooth, acuminate. Lower palea acuminate, five-nerved, quite glabrous or silky, bearded at the 
base. 
3. Festuca duriuscula, L.; stricta, erecta, glaberrima, culmis ceespitosis basi foliosis, foliis setaceo- 
involutis strictis erectis v. patulis, panicula elongata coarctata, ramis brevibus elongatisve paucifloris, 
glumis 6—8-floris insequalibus acutis flosculis brevioribus, flosculis linearibus remotis scabridis, palea 
inferiore basi nuda acuminata aristata.— Linn. Sp. Pl. Engl. Bot. t. 470. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands, in mountainous districts: East Coast, Cape Turnagain, etc., 
Colenso ; Aglionby Plains, etc., Monro. (A most abundant British Grass.) 
A widely distributed Grass, found in Tasmania and Fuegia, and in almost all temperate and cold climates. It 
forms a great proportion of the alpine pasture grass in the moorlands of the British Islands, and is extremely 
variable in stature and habit.—Quite smooth, generally shining. Culms densely tufted, leafy chiefly at the base, 
1-3 feet high, strict, slender. Leaves setaceous, often long and filiform, sometimes short and rigid. Panicle an 
inch to a span long, erect, narrow, contracted or spreading, few-flowered ; branches erect, long or short, slender. 
Glumes acuminate or acute, shorter than the florets, four- to eight-flowered. Zlorets narrow, remote, glabrous. 
Lower palea acuminate, awned, generally scabrid. 
4. Festuca (Vulpia) Žromoides, L.; annua, glaberrima, culmis plurimis dense cespitosis foliosis, foliis 
filiformibus involutis, vaginis elongatis, ligula membranacea, panicula contracta unilaterali racemosa ramis 
brevibus erectis, spiculis sessilibus 8-10-floris leevibus scaberulisve, glumis unilateralibus valde inzequalibus 
subulato-acuminatis, flosculis approximatis anguste lanceolatis, palea inferiore longe aristata, arista scabe- 
rula.— Linn. Sp. Pl. Engl. Bot. t. 1411. F. plebeia, Br. Prodr. : 
Var. 8. tenella ; culmis brevibus capillaribus 1-3-floris. 
Has. Bay of Islands, Auckland, and Great Barriere Islands, abundant, Sinclair, ete. Var. B. Bay 
of Islands, freguent. (A native of England.) 
A. very common Grass, native of Europe and (generally naturalized) of other parts of the world. Tt has pos- 
sibly been introduced into New Zealand, as I do not find it in any of the older collections, and, except Dr. Sinclair’s 
Great Barriére Island specimens, all are from the vicinity of settlements. It was found in Tasmania by Mr. Brown, 
and is common in that island.—An annual Grass, very variable in size, from 2 inches to 2 feet, always perfectly 
smooth. Culms densely tufted, simple, more or less leafy upwards, slender (in var. fj as slender as a thread). 
Leaves narrow, involute, filiform; sheaths long. Panicle generally 1-3 inches long, erect, contracted, rather dense, 
sometimes reduced in var. f to one spikelet. Branches short, erect, appressed. Spikelets rather crowded, shortly 
pedicelled, three- to ten-flowered, 3 inch long with the awns. Glumes narrow, subulate, the upper much the 
largest, strongly nerved, placed at one side of the base of the spikelet. Florets close together on a slender rachis, 
Lower palea scabrous or smooth, concave, narrow, lanceolate, tapering into a long scabrid hair-like awn. 
Gen. XXVI. SCHEDONORUS, Paz. 
Omnia Festuce, sed palea inferiore mutica, sub apice breviter emarginato-dentata. 
This genus only differs from Festuca in having the sharp lower palea notched at each side near the top, or 
obscurely three-toothed—a very obscure character in 6. lifforalis, and sometimes wanting: the southern species are 
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