210 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [Graminea. 
generally wiry, rigid Grasses. (Name from oxedov, near, and ópos, the top; whence Schedonorus, as written by Palisot, 
and not Schenodorus, as it is usually spelt.) 
1. Schedonorus Zittoralis, Pal. Beauv.; glaberrimus, culmis ceespitosis inferne ramosis erectis strictis 
rigidis foliosis, foliis erectis involutis teretibus apicibus pungentibus culmo longioribus, panicula elongata 
coarctata ramis brevibus, spiculis (magnis) compressis, glumis lanceolatis acuminatis, flosculis sub-6 imbri- 
catis, palea inferiore pubescente carinata obscure 3-dentata basi nuda v. barbata.—Pal. Beauv. Agrost. 
S. Billardierianus, Nees. Festuca? littoralis, Br. Prodr. Fl. Antarct. p. 99. T. juncea, Banks et Sol. MSS. 
Poa littoralis, Lab. Fl. Nov. Holl. v. 1. p. 29. t. 91. Arundo triodioides, Trin. Sp. Gram. v. 8. t. 351. 
Var. 8. minor ; panicula breviore, spiculis minoribus. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands, near the sea: East Coast, etc., Banks and Solander, Stephenson, 
Colenso. Var. 8. Auckland, Sinclair, and Port William, Lyall. 
A common Grass on the Tasmanian and Australian coasts, growing in sand and on rocks, where it forms dense 
hard tufts, of a pale yellow colour.—Culms 1-3 feet high, and leaves perfectly smooth, glabrous and polished, 
shining, striated, rigid, erect, wiry, branched at the base. Leaves involute, terete, sharp, almost pungent, longer 
than the culms. Panicles 3-10 inches long, slender, pale yellow, green, with a rigid rachis and short erect branches. 
Spikelets broad, compressed, five-flowered, 4—2 inch long. Glumes acuminate, shorter than the florets, which are 
pubescent. Lower palea sharp, three-toothed at the tip.—I fear there are no characters whereby to separate 7. 
scoparia of Lord Auckland’s Island and Port William from this. Small specimens gathered at Auckland by Sinclair 
have quite entire tips to the paleæ, and, proceeding southwards, the same organ seems to get more hairy below, 
till, at Lord Auckland’s Group, it becomes absolutely bearded. 
Gen. XXVII. BROMUS, Z. 
Spicule multiflore. Glume 2, mutice. Palee 2: inferior ecarinata, apice bifida, inter lobos aristata ; 
arista non torta; superior bicarinata, carinis ciliatis. Syuamule 2, integre. Stamina 3. Ovarium apice 
hirsutum; stigmatibus 2, basi remotis.—Gramina planifolia, paniculata. 
A large genus of Grasses, chiefly natives of Europe and North America, where many species are roadside 
weeds.—Culms generally annual, simple or branched at the very base only. Leaves flat. Spikelets pedicelled, 
panicled, many-flowered. GZumes unequal, not awned. /lorcts all perfect, distichous, imbricated. Lower palea 
split at the top, with a straight awn between the lobes. Scales entire. lamens three. Styles remote, one on 
each side of the hairy top of the ovary. (Name, a Greck term for Oats and other cereal Grasses.) 
1. Bromus arenarius, Lab.; totus villosus pilis mollibus patentibus, foliis utrinque villosis, ligula 
brevissima, panicula patula nutante ramis elongatis paucifloris, spiculis lanceolatis 5—7-floris longe pilosis, 
glumis lanceolatis setaceo-acuminatis, palea inferiore lanceolata marginibus late apicibusque membranaceis, 
arista palez «equilonga reeta— Lab. Fl. Nov. Holl. v. 1. p. 23. t. 28. B. australis, Br. fid. A. Cunn. 
Prodr. et Herb. 
Has. Bay of Islands; rocky places near the sea, 4. Cunningham, Colenso, etc. 
Also a native of Australia.—Culms 3 inches to a foot high, densely covered, as are the leaves on both sides, 
and spikelets, with long soft spreading hairs. Panicle nodding; branches few, slender, spreading, few-flowered. 
Spikelets with the awn an inch long, narrow, lanceolate. Glumes five- to seven-flowered, lanceolate, acuminate, 
almost awned. Lower palea with two bifid tips, which, as well as the margins, are white and membranous. Awn 
straight, as long as the palea. 
Gen. XXVIII. TRITICUM, Z. 
Spicule spicatee, rachi parallele, tri-multiflorz ; floribus distichis. G/um@ 2, suboppositee, insequales v. 
subeequales. Palee 2: superior bicarinata, carinis ciliatis. Sguamule 2, integre, seepius ciliate. Ova- 
rium apice pilosum. Caryopsis libera v. paleis adnata.—TFolia plana; spicule rachi continua spicata; 
floribus rachilla sepius articulata. sessilibus. 
