26 ZOYSTA PUNGENS. 



Its value, however, in sach localities, if bulkier grasses would grow there, must be 

 comparatively little, as, from its close-growing habit, it chokes out all other 

 species. This may be observed near Tauranga, where, on the dry littoral flats 

 above high water, the constant cropping of this grass by horses and cattle has 

 formed so close a turf as to be impervious to all other vegetation. It is evidently 

 much relished by stock, and is worthy of introduction in sand-hill districts near 

 the sea, or saline soil inland, of little value for other herbage, as it would clothe 

 the wet flats with a valuable sward. This is another of those grasses, similar to 

 Paspalum d'tntichum, which will be easiest propagated by roots, the close-matted 

 wiry fibres forming coherent masses of turf, which are easily conveyed in fragments 

 to a distance without injury. DISTRIBUTION IN NEW ZEALAND: NORTH 

 ISLAND : BAY ON ISLANDS-Sinclair : WAIKATO, MAKETU, AND 

 LAKE DISTRICT Kirk ; TITIR ANGI Cheeseman ; TAURANGA Buchanan. 

 SOUTH ISLAND : NELSON Monro ; CANTERBURY Armstrong. 



Reference to Plate XIII. A. : Fig. 1. Plant. 2. Spikelet. 3. Floret. 

 4. Nervation of empty glume. 5. Nervation of flowering glume. 6. Ovary 

 with feathery stigmas. 7, 7'. Grain, front and^side views. 



