50 AGROSTIS PARVIFLORA. 



under notice Agrostisparvi flora, a grass of a delicate succulent habit, and Agrostis 

 canina, one more harsh and much less succulent, and of which the first is probably 

 only a variety. The value of the A grostis family in pasture has been very logically 

 argued by (Juthbert W. Johnson, in his "Farmers' Enclyclopcedia, " where, under 

 the article " Agrostis," he says, " There has been much prejudice existing against 

 the different species of A f/rostis in general, but let the proprietor of a rich ancient 

 pasture divest a part of it of these grasses entirely, and the value of the plants 

 will be demonstrated in the comparative loss of late and early herbage." DISTRI- 

 BUTION IN NEW ZEALAND : NORTH ISLAND : SHORES OF COOK STRAIT 

 Colenso. SOUTH ISLAND : NELSON H. H. Travers ; CANTERBURY 

 Armstrong; OTAGO LAKE DISTRICT Hector and Buchanan; SOUTH- 

 LAND Buchanan. 



Reference to Plate XX. : Fig. l.C. Plant. 2. Spikelet. 3. Floret. 4. Ner- 

 vation of empty glumes. 5. Nervation of flowering glume. 6. Scale. 7. Ovary, 

 pistil, and stamens. 



