Order GRAMINE.^. 

 Genus, Poa; Sub-Order, Festucacece. 



1. POA RAMOSISSIMA. 



POA RAMOSISSIMA, Hook. fil. Fl. Antarct. I., 101. POA RAMOSISSIMA, 

 Hook. fil. Handb. Fl. N.Z. I., 338. 



Culms densely tufted, forming naked, rigid, brown, branching, decum- 

 bent stems, 6 10 inches long, from which much divided, flaccid, very 

 leafy, slender branches, 2 6 inches long, ascend. Leaves most numer- 

 ous, very narrow, flaccid, flat \ inch broad, much longer than the culms; 

 ligule oblong, truncate ; sheaths slender. Panicle i 2 inches long, 

 narrow, green ; branches quite glabrous, smooth, very short, \ inch long, 

 interrupted. Spikelets inch long, very shortly pedicelled, glabrous, 

 green, 3 5 flowered. Empty glumes lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved, 

 nearly equal, as long as the flowering, which are narrower, glabrous, 

 acuminate with incurved tips, obscurely 5-nerved, pedicel glabrous or a 

 little webbed. DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIES : AUCKLAND ISLANDS, 

 CAMPBELL ISLAND. 



No specimen of this grass is in the Colonial Herbarium, and it cannot therefore 

 be figured. It has not hitherto been found in New Zealand, but when it is con- 

 sidered, that the large variety of Poafoliosa, has only recently been collected on 

 the Traps Rocks, a small group of islets South of New Zealand, it is possible that 

 the present grass may yet be discovered on Stewart Island or adjacent rocks. 

 Quoting from Hooker, Handb. Flora N.Z. I., 338, "It is a grass of remarkable 

 habit, from the long, naked, decumbent bases of the culms, which are excessively 

 branched and leafy above." 



