Order GRAMINE^ 



GENUS XIX. TRISETUM, Kunth. 



^pikelets 2 3-flowered, rarely 4-flowered. Panicles open or contracted 

 Impty glumes 2, unequal. Flowering glumes 2 3, with a terminal im- 

 erfect one, 2-fid at the tip ; awn from between the divisions twisted 

 nd recurved. Palea 2 -nerved, 3 4-toothed at top. Scales 2. Grain 

 :ee, glabrous. DISTRIBUTION OF GENUS : TEMPERATE AND 

 UB-ALPINE REGIONS OF BOTH NORTHERN AND 

 1OUTHERN HEMISPHERES. Etymology. Name " Trisetum," 

 jatin, from the flowering glume being sometimes 3-awned. 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES: 



jlabrous, shining, i 2 feet high. Panicle lax, 



spreading - i. T. antarcticum. 



)owny, 6 12 inches high. Panicle spiciform 2. T. subspicatum. 



^ilose, i 3 feet high. Panicle slender, con- 

 tracted - 3. T. YoungiL 



1, TRISETUM ANTARCTICUM. 



SHINING OAT GRASS. 

 (Plate XXXIX.) 



\IRA ANTARCTICA, Forst. AVENA ANTARCTICA, Roem. and Sch. 



\VENA FORSTERI, Kunth. DANTHONIA ANTARCTICA, Sprengel. DAN- 



rnoNiA PALLIDA, A. Cunn. TRISETUM ANTARCTICUM, Trinius. 

 Hook, fil., Fl. N.Z. I., 302 t. 68B. TRISETUM ANTARCTICUM, Trinius. 

 Hook, fil., Handb. N.Z. Flora, I., 335. 



A. GLABROUS, shining, perennial grass, found from sea-level to 6000 feet 

 iltitude. Flowers December February. Culms i 2 feet high. 

 Leaves flat or involute, long or short, often setaceous, pilose, becoming 

 scaberulous after casting the hairs ; ligule short, truncate, often with long 



