36 APERA ARUNDINACEA. 



food for stock ; neither, in an economic point of view, could it, from its sparse 

 distribution, unless cultivated, ever be utilized as a fibre-product in the manu- 

 facture of paper, to which it is otherwise well adapted. It can only, therefore, be 

 classed as ornamental ; and, certainly, the whorled arrangement of the primary 

 branches and branchlets on the long slender culms of this New Zealand Wind 

 Grass presents a very beautiful tussac object for the decoration of lawns, banks of 

 streams, or margins of ponds. DISTRIBUTION IN NEW ZEALAND : NORTH 

 ISLAND: CAPE TURN AGAIN Colenso ; W A IRARAPA Buchanan. 

 SOUTH ISLAND : AKAROA Raoul ; CHRISTCHURCH Armstrong ; 

 DUNEDIN- Buchanan. 



Reference to Plate XVII. : Fig. 1. Plant. 2. Spikelet. 3, 4. Nervation of 

 empty glumes. 5. Nervation of flowering glume. 6. Nervation of Palea. 

 7. Scale. 8. Ovary, stamen, and feathery stigmas. 



