101 



"but P. Imigifolia begins to flower at Port Phillip in August and 

 continues in flower in October. 



Stipa Tuckeri, F. v. M. ; op. cit., p. 128 (Ord. Graminese.) 

 Dwarf ; leaves rather flat with sheathing petioles, and nodes 

 covered with a very soft hair ; tlie hi'anclies andhranchlets of the 

 spreading panicles railier long and u'ith fine spreading hairs, the 

 lower verticillate, the upper fasciculate, the highest here and 

 there double ; the exterior bracts short, gradually narrowing to 

 a very fine point and overtopping to some length the lower 

 floral glume which is rather scaly ; the awn, which is heardless, 

 exceeds the glumes many times. 



In the less fertile regions near the Eivers Lachlan and 

 Darling, where it avoids the sand ; Gerard Tucker (but passing 

 over the South Australian borders — F. v. 31.) This grass 

 resembles closely S. elegantissima, from Avhich it especially 

 differs in the short stem, appearance of the leaves, the branches 

 and hranchlets of the panicles inuch shorter and bearded, the 

 glumes twice or thrice shorter, the awn rather thinner, but not 

 much shorter ; taller, however, in appearance on account of the 

 shortness of its glumes. 



