MACLOSKIE I GRAMINE.-E. 



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F. ERECTA CIRROSA Speg. 



Leaves coarse and rigid, cirrose or subcircinate. 

 Fuegia, Puerto Roca. 



9. F. ERIOLEPIS Desv. 



Slender, cespitose annual, 10-20 cm. high, branching at the base. Leaves 

 convolute, setaceous. Ligules very short, 2-auricled. Panicle 25-50 mm., 

 somewhat spiciform, erect, spreading in anthesis. Spikelets 4-5-flowered. 

 Glumes unequal, the lower linear, i -nerved, acute ; the next broader, 3- 

 nerved, longer. Floral glume with rigid, spinose hairs, at length awned. 

 Stamen i. 



(ChiH.) 



F. ERIOLEPIS NANA Hier. 



Culms 3-7 cm. tall. Leaves 15-20 mm. long. Panicle spike-like, 10- 

 15 mm. long. 

 N. Patagon., at Carmen de Patagones, Golfo de San Jorge. 



IO. F. FUEGIANA Hook. f. 







Erect, tall, 30-60 cm., glabrous. Leaves substrict, short, 7-10 cm.; 

 broadly linear, acute, involute-margined. Lig- 

 ules long. Panicle effuse or contracted, 10 cm. 

 long with scabrous rays. Spikelets 8-10 mm. 

 Glumes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, subcarin- 

 ate. Flowers short-pediceled, webby at base. 

 Flowering glume acuminate, 5-nerved, the 

 nerves silky on the back. (Fig. 42, on right.) 



Patagon., Chubut; Fuegia, everywhere in 

 rocky, maritime and mountainous parts. 



F. FUEGIANA VIVIPARA Hook. f. 



Viviparous form, with glabrous culms and 

 effuse panicle, and spikelets 25 mm. long. 

 (Fig. 42, on left side.) Patagonia. 



T~> T-.I -1 FIG. 42. 



II. F. GLAUCOPHYLLA Phil. ~ . , . c ., , ^ 



Festuca fuegiana. Spikelets, 



Culm tall, sheathed almost tO top, SCabrOUS normal on right, viviparous on left. 



near top. Ligules short. Panicle 20 cm. long, (From Flora Antarct ' ) 



lax, 2 rays in semiwhorls, these long, capillary, spiculiferous at top. 



