56 AGROSTIS BILLARDTERI. 



as this character is very inconstant with some of the New Zealand species, being 

 very small in some, and frequently absent in A. wmnla, it has been consi lered 

 inexpedient in the present work, to follow Bentham in this and adding a new 

 Genus to the New Zealand grasses, or otherwise altering the present arrangement 

 found in Hooker's Handb. of the New Zealand Flora, as much confusion might 

 ensue with those who refer to that work as a guide. DISTRIBUTION IN NEW 

 ZEALAND. NORTH ISLAND : BAY OF ISLANDS AND AUCKLAND. 

 EAST COAST Sinclair, Colenso, Banks, and Solander. ISLANDS OF THE 

 EAST COAST AND WELLINGTON Buchanan. SOUTH ISLAND: 

 NELSON H. H. Travers ; CANTERBURY Armstrong ; DUNEDIN 

 Buchanan. 



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

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

 of Palea. 7. Scale. 8. Grain. 



