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(Mendoza) ; Magellan ; Fuegia, Punta Anegada ; Falklands (also in 

 Kerguelen I., South Shetlands and South Georgia). 



3. D. BRACHYPHYLLA Phil. 



Culm 30 cm. tall, naked upwards, few-leaved, glabrous. Leaves plane, 

 short, their ligules long. Panicle 10 cm. long, depauperate, 2 rays in the 

 semiwhorls; spikelets about 10, subsessile, 4 mm. long. Glumes violet, 

 their margin tawny ; floral glume half as long, the dorsal awn its own 

 length ; the floral hairs shorter. 



W. Patagon., Valley of Rio Palena. 



4. D. DISCOLOR (Thuill. sub Aira] R. & S. 



Culm erect ; radical leaves long, almost filiform ; ligule very acuminate. 

 Panicle weak, contracted, its rays capillary, flexuose. Spikelets rather 

 large ; glumes violet, equalling the white, geniculately awned flowers. 



(N. and Central Eur., N. Chili.) Fuegia. 



5. D. FLEXUOSA (L.) Trin. (Aira /.} 



Cespitose ; culms 50 cm. high, nearly naked ; leaves convolute, seta- 

 ceous. Panicle spreading, rays capillary in pairs, spiculate at apex. 

 Spikelets 5 mm. long; glumes scarious, violet towards base, equalling the 

 flowers, the second slightly longer than the first. Pedicel of the upper 

 flower short, pilose. Awn of floral glumes arising low and protruding 

 from the spikelet. 



(Eur., N. Asia; Greenland; N. Amer.) S. Patagon.; Magell.; Fuegia; 

 Falklands. (Brit. & Br., i, 170.) "Common everywhere by sea-coast 

 and on mountains of Fuegia." (Speg.) 



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6. D. FUEGIANA Phil. 



Subcespitose, glabrous ; culms 22 cm. high, densely sheathed at base. 

 Leaves convolute-setaceous. Panicle 6 cm. long, contracted, rays 2 in the 

 semiwhorls, these naked below, lo-spiculate. Spikelets 4 mm. long, 

 purple, tawny-hyaline at top. Floral glume glabrous at base, not cleft, its 

 awn basal, exceeding the palea. 



E. Fuegia. 



7. D. GRANDIFLORA (Nees). (Aira grandiflora.} 

 Culm erect, 60 cm. tall ; leaves linear, striate, smooth, shorter than the 

 culm, the lower complicate ; ligules long, bifid. Panicle lax, spreading, its 



