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Value as a fodder. — Probably same as P. Forsteri, but a smaller grass. 



Habitat and range. — Recorded from Western and South Australia, 

 besides our own Colony. Found in the coast district and mountain 

 ranges. 



6. Deyeuxia montana, Eentb. 



Botanical name. — Montana — Latin, growing on the mountains — in 

 reference to the habitat of the grass. 



Synonym. — Agrostis montana, R.Br, in F.v.M. Census. 

 Botanical description (B. FL, vii, 581). — 

 Stems from under 1 foot to above 2 feet high. 

 Leaves in the smaller specimens very narrow almost subulate, in the larger ones flat 



and 2 to 3 lines broad. 

 Panicle dense and spikelike, or slightly branched and interrupted at the base, 2 to 



4 inches long. 

 Sjnkelets crowded on the short erect branches. 

 Outer glume* narrow, very acute, rather rigid, 2 to 2\ lines long. 

 Flowering glume short, glabrous, shortly 2- or 4-toothed, the awn attached much 



below the middle and exserted. 

 Palea smaller. 



Rhachis bearing but few short hairs, and produced into a glabrous or slightly hairy 

 bristle, either very short or lengthened, and occasionally bearing an empty 

 glume or imperfect flower. 



Value as a fodder. — Unknown. 



Habitat and range. — Found in Tasmania, Victoria, and South Aus- 

 tralia, besides our own Colony. In New South Wales confined to the 

 southern mountain ranges. 



7. Deyeuxia quadriseta, Benth. 



Botanical name. — Quadriseta — Latin, from auatiior, four ; seta, a 

 bristle — in allusion to the four nerves (two on each side) of the flowering- 

 glume, more or less produced into acute teeth or points. 



Synonym. — Agrostis quadriseta, R.Br., in F.v.M. Census. 



Vernacular names . — The " Reed-grass" of Bacchus, and the " Spiked 

 Bent or Reed-grass" of Buchanan. 



Where figured. — Labillardiere, as Arena quadriseta. ; Trinius, as 

 Agrostis quadriseta ; Buchanan ; Agricultural Gazette. 



Botanical description (B. Fl., vii, 581). — A glabrous and smooth or 

 scabrous erect perennial, very variable in stature, usually 1 to 3 feet 

 high. 



Leaves narrow, erect or spreading, flat or convolute when dry. 



Panicle dense and spike-like, varying from 1^ or 2 inches to 8 or 10 inches long ; 



when small closely cylindrical, when large more branched ; but the spikelets 



always densely crowded from the base of the short erect branches. 

 Outer glumes narrow, very acute, with a scabrous or minutely ciliate keel, the sides 



smooth, 1^ to near 2 lines long. 

 Flowering glume shorter, broad, hyaline, and rolled round the flower, the two nerves 



on each side more or less produced into acute teeth or points. 

 Awn attached much below the middle or close to the base, usually not much longer 



than the outer glumes. 

 Palea narrow. 

 Rhachis of the spikelet hairy round the flower, produced sometimes into a minute 



bristle, which, however, appears to be generally deficient. 



