824 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Resembles the specimen from the Strait of Magellan, described 
as var. y by Sir Joseph Hooker. The species, a larger, more robust 
plant, inhabits the Falkland Islands. 
Poa Prichardi, sp. nov. s.: bande dioica, glauca, ee. rhizo- 
mate se tenui, caule cu vaginis 
ea § a; 
lamina plicata, anguste ore seabridla, ine ibrevite rors ; 
brevibus dense spiculiferis, silsilis pallide viridibus purpureo- 
tinctis, glumis sterilibus subsqualibus acutis, 3-nerviis, nan -in 
parte superiore, scabridula, rhachilla elabra, glumis fertilibus 6, 
glabris, 5-nerviis, in parte tertia vel quarta superiore scariosis et 
enervils, carina obscure scabridula, palea quam gluma + breviore, 
floribus fcemineis. 
A low-growing grass 80 em. hi gh, growing erect from a rhizome 
1 mm. thick. é aerial stem is surrounded by a mass of withered 
leaf- eta. from which also ae the erect young shoots. The 
single stem-leaf has a sheath 1 m. long, a triangular-ovate ligule 
8mm., and a blade 6 em. pth talid in its natural closely folded 
state scarcely exceeding 1 mm. in width. i like panicle nearly 
cm. long, interrupted at the base, but compact above, suggesting 
en = = re us Kunth, but less dense. Spikelets 8-9 mm 
ong, g mbranous ower ni arren glume 5 mm., Si 5°5 mm. 
ae ; wan ‘fertile gland 6 mm os 
Springs on slopes, Mt. Buen 
This grass suggests from its habit a iemall form of Poa Alopecurus, 
from which it is distinguished by its more graceful, less compact 
— and its glabrous spikelets. 
. PraTENSIS Li. Sp. Pl. 67; Macloskie, J. c. 229. 
Sheltered pampas, Burmeister Peninsula 
widely-spread north setoperate grass, recorded from several 
localities in Patagonia; also in Fuegia and the Falkland Islands. 
P. scaperuta Hook. f. FI. es 378; Macloskie, J. c. 281. 
Mountain —— Burmeister Peninsula. 
Patagonia ; ; 
Bromus Pictus Ho ok. f. Fl. Antarct. 387; Macloskie, J. c. 2438. 
Pampa, Burmeister Penin sula. 
Patagonia ; ia 
Horpeum supatum L. Sp. Pl. 85; Hook.f. Fl. Antarct. 388; 
Muslonkie, t.¢. 249. 
Slopes of mountains, Burmeister Peninsula. 
Tempenite North and South America; Eastern Siberia. 
AREX Banxstr Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 365, t. exlii. ; 
Macloskie in Rep. aver Univ. Exped. Patag, vil. 2 
Swampy springs i E 
South Patpontiy Fuegia. 
C. tnconsproua Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp. 221. 
Springs, Burmeister puninwala 
hili, 
ake A rgentino. 
