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Has. Northern part of Tasmania, Gunn.—(Fl, Dec.) 
Disrris. King George's Sound and Victoria. 
A very distinct species, conspicuous for its slender, branched, leafy, knotted culms, 2-3 feet long, its narrow, 
strict, rigid leaves, rough to the touch, and small, loose panicle of small spikelets, on long, flexuous branches.— 
Glumes rather blunt, unequal, shorter than the flowers, which are nearly smooth, except at the margins, and have 
no awns.—PLATE CLVII. 4. Fig. 1, spikelet; 2, male flower; 3, hermaphrodite flower; 4, squamule, stamens, 
and ovary :—all magnified. 
Gen. VIII. ALOPECURUS, 7. 
Glume 2, naviculares, subeeguales, basi connate, 1-flore. Paleæ 1-2, marginibus connatis v. liberis ; 
inferior carinata, dorso seepius aristata; superior brevior, 1-nervis, v. 0. Squamule 0. Stamina 3. Cary- 
opsis elliptica, compressa, inter glumas induratas paleasque libera.—Culmis sepius simplicibus ; foliis pla- 
nis; panicula conferta, spicaformi, cylindrica, densiflora. 
A genus almost wholly confined to the temperate and frigid regions of the northern hemisphere; but one spe- 
cies is common to the Arctic and Antarctic regions (Fuegia), and the Tasmanian one is found also in New Zealand 
and in Europe.—Culms generally simple, with flat leaves. Panicles contracted into dense, pale, cylindrical spikes. 
Spikelets one-flowered. Glumes laterally flattened, boat-shaped, keeled, joined together below. Palee one or two, 
free or connate; lower keeled, often awned at the back; upper, when present, smaller, one-nerved. Stamens three. 
Caryopsis compressed, free, included in the hardened glumes and pales. (Name from ahwrné, a fox, and ovpos, a 
tail.) 
1. Alopecurus geniculatus (Linn.); culmis cespitosis basi geniculatis, panicula contracta eylin- 
dracea, glumis pubescentibus, palea dorso infra medium aristata.— Engl. Bot. t. 1250. A. australis, Vees, 
in Mitchell’s Australia, n. 51. 
Haz. In a rivulet, Formosa, Gunn. (Common Foxtail Grass of England.) —(Fl. October.) 
Distri. New South Wales and Victoria, New Zealand, Eastern, Central, and Northern Asia, North 
America, Europe. 
The culms and leaves quite smooth, the former 14-24 feet high, ascending, bent below. Panicle a soft, 
downy, cylindrical, green spike, 11-21 inches long. Spikelets imbricated on a woolly rachis. Glumes downy and 
fringed. Palea with an awn of variable length inserted at or below the middle, sometimes at the base. 
Gen. IX. STIPA, Z. 
Spicule \-flore, flore stipitato.  G/ume 2, membranacem, florem superantes. Palee 2, coriacem, 
cylindraceo-involutz ; inferior aristata ; arista simplici torta, basi cum palea articulata; superior brevior, 
coriacea, 2-nervis. Sguamule 3, carnosee, ovarii stipiti adnate. Anthere apice plerumque barbate. 
Caryopsis paleis arcte involuta.— Foliis planis v. convolutis; spiculis paniculatis, pedicellatis. 
A large genus, of generally handsome, rigid, wiry, shining Grasses, conspicuous for their very long awns, 
abundant in the temperate and warmer regions of the globe; rarer in the tropies or cold zones; differing from 
Dichelachne chiefly in the long glumes and coriaceous upper paleæ, the lower of which is entire at the tip, and the 
awn being jointed on to its summit.— Leaves involute, often setaceous, smooth, downy, or ciliated in the true 
species. Glumes two, equal, longer than the floret, generally transparent, shining, much acuminate. Floret solitary, 
stipitate, downy, villous below. Palee coriaceous, margins involute ; lower with a terminal, twisted awn; upper 
shorter, two-nerved. Anther-cells often bearded. Squamule three, attached to the stalk of the ovarium. Seed 
enclosed in the involute palee. (Name from ev, tow ; in allusion to the feathery awns.) 
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