82 DANTHONIA PILOSA. 



Reference to Plate XXXIII. : Fig. 1. Plant. 2. -Spikelet. 3, Floret. 

 4, 4'. Nervation of empty glumes. 5. Nervation of flowering glume. 6, Nerva- 

 tion of Palea. 7. Scale. 8. Ovary, styles, and stigmas. 9, 9', 9". Grain, 

 different views. 



7. DANTHONIA PILOSA, VAR. STRICTA. 



HARD OAT GRASS. 

 (Plate XXXIIL 2. A.) 



A STRAIGHT rigid grass, flowers November January. Culms i 2 

 feet high, rigid, pilose. Leaves few, flat or involute, short, pilose, 

 sheathing leaves short. Panicle similar to that of the species, but 

 harder. Florets glabrous, pencils of hair on back sometimes reduced to 

 one hair, a circle of hairs round the base, awns shorter and less coloured 

 than in the species. DISTRIBUTION IN NEW ZEALAND : SAME AS 

 SPECIES. 



Reference to Plate XXXIIL 2. A. : Fig. 1. Plant after flowering. 

 2. Spikelet. 3. Floret. 4. Nervation of empty glumes. 5. Nervation of 

 flowering glume. 6. Palea. 7. Scale. 8. Ovary, &c. 



7 ._DANTHONIA PILOSA, VAR. RACEMOSA. 



RACEMED OAT GRASS. 



(Plate XXXIIL 2. B.) 



A SLENDER drooping grass. Flowers December January. Culms 

 i 2 feet high, weak, glabrous or pilose. Leaves few, very narrow, 

 involute, or flat, glabrous or pilose, sheathing leaves short. Panicle 

 racemose, drooping, with few distant spikelets. Florets the same as in 



VAR. STRICTA. DISTRIBUTION IN NEW ZEALAND : SAME RANGE 



AND HABITATS AS SPECIES. 



Reference to Plate XXXIIL 2. B. : Fig. 1. Plant after flowering. 2. Floret. 

 3. Scales, showing their method of growth from the rachis, the rachis of the next 

 flower articulates at the side as a branch, in Danlhonla, the scales appear first as 

 2, membranous, linear-oblong, obtuse, or tapering leaves, which afterwards split 

 up on the upper part into cilia. The stigmas also of several grasses have been 

 observed to be well developed, before separating from a similar membrane. 



