Order GRAMINE^E. 



Genus, Triticum ; Sub-Order, Hon1cacc<c. 



3. TRIT1CUM YOUNGII. 



TRITICUM YOUNGII, Hook, fil., Handb. Fl. N.Z. 



Leaves quite glabrous below, slightly scabrid on the upper surface. 

 Spike 2 3 inches long, of 3 or 4 very large spikelets 4 inches long, 

 including the awns. Empty glumes J inch long, acuminate margins 

 membranous. Flowering glumes nearly f inch long without the awn, 

 which is \\ 2 inches long, very stout, rigid, scabrid, concave at the 

 back, concave in front with scabrid edges, margin and sides of glumes 

 scabrid and almost aculeate. DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIES: MIDDLE 

 ISLAND : GRASSY FLATS, SOURCES OF THE WAITAKI, AT 

 3000 FEET ALTITUDE- Haast. 



There is no specimen of this grass in the Colonial Herbarium, and cannot 

 therefore be figured. This appears to be a very rare grass, and probably confined 

 to the district in which it was originally discovered. Hooker says of it Handb. 

 Flora N.Z., I., 343, "a remarkable plant, with few spikelets, almost twice as 

 large as those of Triflcitm scabrum, and very long rigid awns.' 



