Order GRAMINE^. 

 Genus, Poa \ Sub -Order, Festucacea. 



3. POA ANCEPS, VAR. e. DI SBILIS. 



SLENDER POA 

 (Plate XLVL E.) 

 POA ANCEPS, VAR DEBiLis, Kirk, M.S. 



A LONG, slender, tufted grass. Perennial. Culms 

 smooth. Leaves longer than the culm, very narrow 

 sheaths narrow ; iigule very short. Panicle 4 5 i 

 branches few, in distant pairs, capillary. Spikele 

 narrow, 4 5 flowered, terminal near the ends of tl 

 glumes 3-nerved. Flowering glumes 5-nerved, finel 

 with long flocculent hair at the base. Palea bifi- 

 long. Scale oblique, acute. Grain narrow. Du 

 DEBILIS : NEW ZEALAND. 



This very slender grass was discovered by Mr. T. E 

 springs in the Auckland district, and has probably been 

 peculiar circumstances of heat and moisture which pr< 

 has been previously shewn, that the conditions mos' 

 growth with the New Zealand species of Poa, are unde 

 severe climate, at altitudes of 4 5000 feet, it may ther 

 weakly variety is the result of forcing, it can however 

 where from its large size and succulent habit, it will be 

 from the peculiar circumstances of its forced and rapi( 

 may be doubted. DISTRIBUTION IN NEW ZEALAND : 

 SPRINGS, AUCKLAND Kirk. 



Reference to Plate XLVl. E. Fig. 1. Plant. 2. 

 Nervation of empty glumes. 5. Nervation of floweri) 

 Palea. 7. Scale. 8, 8'. Grain, front and side views. 



12 1 6 inches high, 

 ;, slender, drooping ; 

 aches long, inclined, 

 ts few, J inch long, 

 ie branches. Empty 

 y scabridus and tufted 

 d, 2-nerved. Anthers 



STRIBUTION OF VAR. 6. 



lirk, F.L.S., near tiie hot 



developed there under the 



evail in. that locality. It 



b favourable to maximum 



T a temperate, or probably 



efore be assumed, that this 



only possess a local value, 



i readily eaten by stock, but 



L growth, its nutrient value 



NORTH ISLAND: HOT 



Spikelet. 3. Floret. 4, 4'. 

 ig glume. 6. Nervation of 



