Kirx.—On recent Additions to the New Zealand Flora. 885 
Hierochloe alpina, Roem. and Schultes, var. submutica. 
H. submutica, F. Muell. 
Danthonia buchanani, J. Buch., Manual of Indigenous Grasses of New Zealand,” 
. 87, t. xxxv. (not of Hook. f.) 
This form is intermediate between H. redolens and H. alpina, but is 
most closely related to the latter. The New Zealand plant agrees with 
that of Victoria in habit, and especially in the lower glumes being scarcely 
ciliate, but differs slightly in having longer awns, which appear to be always 
developed. 
The panicle is more open than in H. alpina, the branches are longer and 
extremely slender, distant, usually drooping. Spikelets 8-6. Leaves broad, 
Hab.—Common in mountain districts, especially on the west coast of 
the South Island. 
Bentham in ‘Flora Australiensis” unites H. redolens and H. alpina, 
and considers our plant as a connecting form, which may possibly prove 
worthy of specific honours. 
I fully agree with Mr. Buchanan in keeping H. alpina separate from the 
European H. borealis, but cannot understand his having mistaken our plant 
for a Danthonia, especially for D. buchanani, which, independently of its 
generic and sectional distinctive characters, is described as having a short 
contracted panicle and filiform leaves. 
Stipa micrantha, Cav., R. Br. 
Streplachne ramosissima, Trin. and Rupr. 
I have already recorded the occurrence of this species in the colony, 
and now add that it was originally discovered by Mr. W. T. L. Travers, 
near Foxhill, in the Nelson District. Recently it has been found in great 
abundance on the Takaka ranges, Nelson, by the Rev. F. H. Spencer, who 
informs me that the culms are sometimes from 5 to 6 feet in length. 
Although formerly inclined to regard it as introduced at Lyall Bay, in the 
North Island, I am now convinced that it is indigenous in that habitat.* 
The culms are usually from 2 to 5 feet long, hard, much branched, the 
branches being frequently arrested, rounded, bunches at the nodes, but 
usually they are long and spreading. Panicle from 6 inches to 2 feet in 
length, branches numerous, capillary, drooping. Spikelets small, outer 
glumes narrow, nearly equal. Flowering glume shortly stipitate, entire, 
wn 4 inch long, articulated on the glume. Palea less than half as long as 
the glume. 
The habit of this species resembles that of Microlena polynoda, but the 
Plant is much larger. 
~ «Trans. N.2. Inst.,” vol. x. P- 878. 
