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3 — 6 uncias longa; rami ramulique tenuissime filiformes scaber- 

 rimi. Spiculae longissime pedicellatse, vix linea longiores, ovato- 

 conicae, acutissimae, glaberrimae, obscure virides; gluma inferior 

 basin spiculye amplectens eaque tertia tantum parte brevior, late 

 ovata, acuta, valide 5-nervia; gluma superior flosculo herm. lon- 

 gior multinervia ; flosculi neutri palea glumaa interiori omnino si- 

 milis, sed apice subinfuscala; palea interiör vulgo nulla; flosculi 

 herm. paleae laevissime nitentes. 



Variat: majus: culmo bipedali, subsimplici, pennae anserinae 

 crassitie, foliis latis, panicula ramosissima, apice 

 2 — 4 uncias lata. 



In insula Indefatigable. 

 minus: culmo vix pedali, a basi ramosissimo, tenui, 

 foliis vix semiunciam latis, vaginis multo den- 

 sius et scabrius strigosis, panicula anguste con- 

 tracta subrara, spiculis laetius viridibus basi 

 flavescentibus. 



Hab. in insulis Chatham et Charles. 

 glabrescens : vaginis pilis tantum paucis derelictis gla- 

 briusculis, foliis obscurius coloratis, spiculis (in 

 duabus praecedentibus formis mox caducis) di- 

 utius persistentibus et paniculam densiorem effi- 

 cientibus. 



In insula Chatham. 



59. P. fuscum Sw. fl. ind. occ. I. 145. Kth. Agr. 

 p. 94. 



Sub triplici occurrit forma: 



vegetius: pallide virens, culmo basi adscendente, diffuse ra- 

 ramosissimo, 1 — 2 pedali; ramis panicuke pyrami- 

 dalis angulatim divaricatis; spiculis pallide ferrugineis. 



firmius: obscure viridis, culmo pedali rigido, ramis et foliis 

 strictissimis; ramis paniculae elongatae subadpressis ; 

 spiculis fusco-sanguineis. 



pubescens .- foliis vaginisque longe pilosis. 



Hab. locis graminosis reg. inferioris et mcdise 

 ins, Chatbam et Charles (Ipse). 



* P. fasciculatum Siv. prodr. 2'3 11. ind. occ. 

 I. 156. Kth. Agr 94. 



Hab. locis niaxime graminosis reg. inferioris 

 ins. Indefatigable (Ipse). 



