Gramina.] SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 475 



Auckland Islands ; T. Kirk ! F. R. Chapman ! Campbell Island ; Hook, f., 

 T. Kirk ! Antipodes Island ; Hook, f., T. Kirk ! 



No specimen of this grass was collected on the expedition. 



The species is also widely spread in elevated mountain-valleys of the South 

 Island of New Zealand. It is endemic in the New Zealand botanical region. 



Deschampsia gracillima, T. Kirk. 



Deschampsia gracillima, T. Kirk in Journ. of Bot., xxiv (1891), 237. 



Auckland Islands ; J. S. Tennant ! Carnley Harbour ; T. Kirk ! 



Mr. Tennant's specimens showed only the remains of last season's panicles, and 

 one very young panicle of the current season. 



The species has now been found to extend to Campbell Island, where specimens 

 were collected by Mr. B. C. Aston in January, 1909. 



Deschampsia penicillata, T. Kirk. 



Deschamfsia penicillata, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxvii (1895), 354. 



Macquarie Island ; A. Hamilton ! 



Endemic in Macquarie Island, which was not visited by the expedition. 



Trisetum, Pers. 



Distribution. — North temperate zone, high mountains of the tropics, South 

 America, and Australasia. 



Trisetum subspicatum, Beauv. 



Trisetum subspicatum, Beauv., Agrost., 88 ; Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., i, 97. 



Auckland Islands ; T. Kirk ! J. S. Tennant ! Campbell Island ; T. Kirk ! 

 R. M. Laing ! H. C. Field ! 



Mr. Laing's specimens doubtless belong here ; they have rather broad, acute, 

 softly silky leaves, but are not in flower. 



A well-known alpine grass, ranging into both the arctic and the antarctic regions. 



Danthonia, D.C. 



Distribution. — Widely dispersed in both hemispheres, but chiefly in the south 

 temperate zone ; particularly plentiful in South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. 



Danthonia antarctica, Hook. f. 



Danthonia antarctica. Hook, f., Fl. Nov. Zel., i, 302 (in part). D. bromoides, 

 Hook, f., Fl. Nov. Zel., i, 303, t. 68a. Bromus antarcticus. Hook, f., Fl. 

 Antarct., i, 97, t. 54. Danthonia antarctica, var. elata. Hook, f., Fl. Nov. 

 Zel., i, 302. 



Auckland Islands ; B. C. Aston ! J. S. Tennant ! L. Cockayne ! T. Kirk ! 

 H. C. Field ! Campbell Island ; Hook, f., Buchanan, T. Kirk. 



This grass has been found in various widely scattered spots on the coast of the 

 North Island of New Zealand ; but it has not been reported from the South Island 

 or Stewart Island. Its remarkable discontinuous distribution has excited the sus- 



