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Species 8, in temperate and cold regions. H. borealis Roem. & Schultes 

 is the holy-grass of N. Eur. and N. Amer. (Brit. & Br. i, 131). 



I. H. ARENARIA Steud. 



Rhizome woody, somewhat creeping. Culm erect, 45-60 cm. high, 

 sheathed the whole way ; sheaths dilated ; leaf-blades soon convolute, rigid, 

 obtuse, glabrous. Panicle slightly diffuse, its rays solitary, few-flowered 

 at top. Spikelets 6 mm. long, 3-flowered. Glumes slightly exceeding 

 the flowers, those of the male flowers smooth marginally, ciliate, short, 

 awned. Perfect flower obtuse, glabrous. 



Magellan. 



2. H. REDOLENS (Forst. sub Holcus] R. Br. (H. antarctica R. Br. 



H. magellanica Hook, f.) 



Leaves plane below, convolute above, their sheaths lax-glabrous. 

 Panicle effuse, nodding ; pedicels pilose upwards. Spikelets 8 mm. long, 

 the male flowers pilose on the margin and back ; perfect flower short mu- 

 cronate, glabrous. 



Falklands, abounding near water; Magellan and through Fuegia to 

 Cape Horn (also in S. Chili, Australia and New Zealand.) 



H. REDOLENS MAGELLANICA (Hook. f.). 



Panicle less elongate, and only slightly nodding. 

 Magellan. 



H. REDOLENS MAJOR (Speg.). 



Culms 2-3 meters, glabrous ; ligules broadly triangular. Panicle very 

 long, secund, nodding ; upper rays close, lower remote. 



Fuegia, by the coast ; Blossom Bay ; rare. 



It would appear from Bentham's note in Flora Austral, vii, 558, that 

 this species should be named H. redolens (Forster), as Forster's name 

 (Holcus redolens} is the oldest and was applied to the typical New Zea- 

 land plant. It is Melica magellanica Desv. in Lam. Die. iv, 72. 



13. PHALARIS Linn. 



Leaves flat ; panicle spike-like or capitate. Spikelets crowded, i -flow- 

 ered. Empty glumes 4, first and second subequal, compressed, wing 

 keeled; third and fourth small or rudimentary. Floriglume and palea 

 equal. Stamens 3. Styles distinct. Grain oblong. 



