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10. Panicum Baileyi, Bentli. 



Botanical name. — Baileyi, in honor of Frederick Manson Bailey, 

 the well-known colonial botanist of Queensland. 



Botanical description (B.FL, vii, 471). — A glabrous rather slender 

 grass of 1\ to 2 feet, with the inflorescence of P. parviflorum, but the 

 spikelets rather of P. divaricatissimum. 



Leaves flat, narrow, the ligula shortly prominent, scarious, not ciliate. 

 Panicle of several simple filiform branches of 3 or 4 inches, all distant or the upper 

 ones rather crowded, or the lower ones sometimes clustered, not verticillate. 



Spikelets narrow-ovoid, rather acute, nearly 1 line long, mostly in pairs, one on a 

 much longer pedicel than the other, or in the lower part of the branch, the longer 

 pedicel with two or three spikelets. 



Outer glume very small, ovate, one-nerved. 



Second and third glumes nearly equal, fringed with rather long hairs spreading when 

 in fruit, the second usually five-nerved, the third rather broader and seven-nerved. 



Fruiting glume acute, smooth, and shining. 



Value as a fodder. — "Very near P. 'parviflorum in general appearance, 

 and, like that species, a good pasture or hay grass ; it attains the 

 height of from 2 to 4 feet, and is plentifully supplied with leaves. 

 It is usually met with on good soil." (Bailey.) Doubtless a nutri- 

 tious grass, but we require information in regard to New South Wales 

 experience of it. 



Habitat and range. — Northern New South Wales and Queensland. 



Series II. — Tkichachnbj:. 



Spikelets silky-hairy, or fringed with long hairs, sessile, or shortly 

 pedicellate, clustered, or rarely in pairs along the rhachis of the 

 simple spike-like panicle, or of the two or few long erect branches. 



Spike-like branches, few or spike single. Spikelets mostly clustered, 

 1 to 1^ lines long, the outer glume present, but small and often 

 concealed by the long silky hairs 12. P. leucophceum 



Spike-like branches few. Spikelets 2 to 2\ lines long, fringed with 

 long hairs connected by a prominent nerve or membrane. 

 Glumes with fine points 13. P. semialatum 



12. Panicum leucophaDum, Humb. et Bonpl. 



Botanical name. — Leucophseum, a Latinised form of two Greek 

 words (leucos, white, and phaios, brown), denoting a grey, or rusrset, 

 or brown dusky colour, in allusion to the appearance of the inflores- 

 cence. 



Vernacular name. — " Cotton Grass" of the United States. This 

 name is sometimes adopted for this grass in Australia. 



Where figured. — Agricultural Gazette. 



