MACLOSKIE : GRAMINE^. 237 



(Chili, etc.); Patagon., by Rio Chubut, on dry, elevated plains. 



F. MURALIS PYGM/EA. 



Patagon.; at Puerto Madryn. 



15. F. MYURUS Linn. 



Root fibrous. Culm basally geniculate, erect, 15-30 cm., covered by 

 sheaths up to the panicle. Leaves convolute ; ligules 2-auricled. Panicle 

 long, racemose, subsecund, erect or nodding. The upper empty glume 

 acute, the lower setaceous shorter. Flowers in fives, lanceolate-subulate, 

 attenuate, long-awned, scabrid. 



(S. Eur.; Argent.); Patagon. 



1 6. F. OVINA Linn. 



Slender-tufted or creeping, 15-50 cm. high; leaves one third the 

 height of the culm ; the sheaths with auricled throat and short ligules ; 

 culm 2-3-leaved ; sterile shoots with numerous leaves, more or less con- 

 duplicate. Panicle compact, subsecund, 3-10 cm. long. Spikelets sub- 

 elliptical, 3-8-flowered ; floral glume narrow, scarious-margined, involute 

 with age, shortly awned. Grain oblong, grooved, adhering to glume and 

 palea. 



(In N. Hemisphere, greatly varying ; Brit. & Br. i, 217.) 



1 6b. F. OVINA ANTARCTICA Hack. 



As var. magellanica, but its leaves are (especially the sheaths), waxy- 

 glaucous, the culms low, 4-5 cm., the panicle only 2-3 cm. long; floral 

 glumes strigillose. 



E. Fuegia. (Ansorge.) 



i6c. F. OVINA BREVIFOLIA S. Watson. 



Leaves all setaceous, the uppermost very short, almost obsolete, 

 sheaths loose, soon splitting. 



(Subarctic in both hemispheres; and in Rocky Mts.) 

 At Coy Inlet. (J. B. Hatcher, Nov. 23, 1896.) 



\6d. F. OVINA DURIUSCULA (L.). F. duriusctda Linn. Hard Fescue. 

 Culms rather tall and stout, and leaves firm, usually smooth. Panicle 

 mostly lax ; floral glumes 6 mm. long. 



