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Value as a fodder. — A wiry and rather rigid grass, cropped by stock 

 only when young. 



Habitat and range. — Confined to New South Wales, and to the Port 

 Jackson district and the Blue Mountains. 



2. Danthonia bipartita, E.v.M. 



Botanical name. — Bipartita, Latin, divided into two parts, in allusion 

 to the bipartite outer glume. 



Where figured. — Agricultural Gazette. 

 Botanical description (B. FL, vii, 592). 



Stems from an almost bulbous often woolly base 1 to 2 feet high. 



Leaves flat but narrow, glabrous or sprinkled with long hairs. 



Panicle almost reduced to a simple raceme of 3 to 6 inches. 



Spikelets few, on short erect distant pedicels, or the lower pedicels shortly branched, 



with two or three spikelets. 

 Outer glumes herbaceous, many-nerved, 5 to 8 lines long, tapering into fine points. 

 Flowering glumes four to eight, scarcely exceeding the outer ones, the oblique base a 



little more than 1 line long and broad, with a dense ring of long hairs under the 



lobes. 

 Lobes narrow-lanceolate, very acute, unawned, 3 to 4 lines long, the central awn 



scarcely longer. 

 Palea obtuse or truncate. 



Value as a fodder. — Useful as a tender-leaved and productive 

 perennial grass for arid country. 



Habitat and range. — Found in all the colonies except Tasmania. It 

 is confined to the arid districts. 



8. Danthonia carphoides, E.v.M. 



Botanical name. — Carphoides, Carpha, oidos (like), the inflorescence 

 superficially resembling that of Carpha, a genus of Cyperaceous plants. 



Vernacular name. — Has been sent under the name of u Wallaby- 

 grass." 



Where figured. — Agricultural Gazette. 



Botanical description (B. FL vii, 592). 



Stems from 3 or 4 inches to 1 foot high. 



Leaves very narrow, not long, glabrous. 



Panicle ovate, dense, 1 to 1J inches long. 



Spikelets few, very shortly pedicellate. 



Outer glumes 4 to 5 lines long, rather broad, with scarious margins. 



Flowering glumes three to six, with a broad oblique base as in D. bipartita, the ring 



of hairs almost broken into clusters. 

 Lateral lobes shorter than the base, the very fine awn scarcely exceeding them. 



Value as a fodder. — A useful fodder-plant, not of the highest 

 class. 



Habitat and range. — Found in South Australia, Victoria, and New 

 South Wales. In our colony it extends from the ranges and table- 

 lands from New England south to the Macquarie and Murray Rivers. 



