97 RCELERIA CRISTATA. 



ON THE SOUTHERN ALPS Sinclair and Haast; CLUTHA 

 VALLEY, (abundant) Buchanan ; NELSON, (3000 feet) Travers. 



This is an abundant grass in the South Island, found chiefly on dry places, it 

 possesses very little nourishment, and therefore cannot be recommended for 

 cultivation ; all kinds of stock are said to refuse it, but probably this opinion is 

 based on the experience of rich British pastures, ^and it may still have some value 

 in places subject to severe drought during exceptionally dry seasons, for however 

 poor the nutrient qualities of certain grasses may be, they enable the stockowncr 

 to preserve his stock, till better pasture is more abundant. DISTRIBUTION i x 

 NEW ZEALAND: SOUTH ISLAND: AGLIONBY PLAIN S-Munro ; CAN- 

 TERBURY PLAINS AND ACHERON VALLEY, (4000 feet) Travers, 

 Armstrong; SOUTHERN ALPS Sinclair and Haast; NELSON MOl.'N- 

 TAINS .H H. Travers; OTAGO LAKE DISTRICT Hector and Buchanan; 

 OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND, (abundant) Buchanan. 



Reference to Plate XXXVTII. : Fig. 1, 1 '. Large and small size of Plant. 

 2. Spikelet. 3. Floret. 4, 4'. Nervation of empty glumes. ;">. Nervation of 

 flowering glume. (5. Nervation of Palea. 7. Scale. 



