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Value as a fodder. A wiry and rather rigid grass, cropped by stock 

 only when young. 



Habitat and range. Confined to New South Wales, and to the Port 

 Jackson district and the Blue Mountains. 



2. Danthonia bipartita, E.y.M. 



Botanical name. Bipartita, Latin, divided into two parts, in allusion 

 to the bipartite outer glume. 



Where figured. Agricultural Gazette. 

 Botanical description (B. FL, vii, 592). 



Stems from an almost bulbous often woolly base 1 to 2 feet high. 



Leaves flat but narrow, glabrous or sprinkled with long hairs. 



Panicle almost reduced to a simple raceme of 3 to 6 inches. 



Spikelets few, on short erect distant pedicels, or the lower pedicels shortly branched, 



with two or three spikelets. 



Outer glumes herbaceous, many-nerved, 5 to 8 lines long, tapering into fine points. 

 Flowering glumes four to eight, scarcely exceeding the outer ones, the oblique base a 



little more than 1 line long and broad, with a dense ring of long hairs under the 



lobes. 

 Lobes narrow-lanceolate, very acute, unawned, 3 to 4 lines long, the central awn 



scarcely longer. 

 Palea obtuse or truncate. 



Value as a fodder. Useful as a tender-leaved and productive 

 perennial grass for arid country. 



Habitat and range. Found in all the colonies except Tasmania. It 

 is confined to the arid districts. 



3. Danthonia earphoides, E.v.M. 



Botanical name. Carplioides, Carpha, oidos (like), the inflorescence 

 superficially resembling that of Carpha, a genus of Cyperaceous plants. 



Vernacular name. Has been sent under the name of " Wallaby- 

 grass." 



Where figured. Agricultural Gazette. 



Botanical description (B. Fl. vii, 592). 



Stems from 3 or 4 inches to 1 foot high. 



Leaves very narrow, not long, glabrous. 



Panicle ovate, dense, 1 to 1^ inches long. 



Spikelets few, very shortly pedicellate. 



Outer glumes 4 to 5 lines long, rather broad, with scarious margins. 



Flowering glumes three to six, with a broad oblique base as in D, bipartita, the ring 



of hairs almost broken into clusters. 

 Lateral lobes shorter than the base, the very fine awn scarcely exceeding them. 



Value as a fodder. A useful fodder-plant, not of the highest 

 class. 



Habitat and range. Found in South Australia, Victoria, and New 

 South Wales. In our colony it extends from the ranges and table- 

 lands from New England south to the Macquarie and Murray Rivers. 



