■268 THE TA8MANIA.N FLOBA. 



2. D. PAUCIPLOKA, jR. Br. 1-3 inches high. Leaves filiform, rigid. Spikelets 

 few, about 3 lines long. Outer glumes rather broad. Flowering glumes 2-4, 

 small, usually copiously hairy, and often with a very distinct ring. Lateral 

 lobes short, broadly lanceolate. Awn rather longer. 



Very common, alpine; also found in lowland pastures; also Victoria, New 

 :South Wales, and New Zealand. 



29. AMPHIBROMUS. 



Spikelets several-flowered. Outer glumes much shorter than the spikelets. 

 Flowering glumes terminating in 2 simple (truncate or bifid) lobes. Awn 

 slender, twisted, inserted between and below the lateral lobes. 



The genus contains but one species. 



A. NEBSIT, Steud. Mostly 1-2 feet high. Leaves few, rather narrow. Panicle 

 long and loose. Spikelets on long slender stalks, each about \-\ inch long, and 

 6-8-flowered. Flowering glume scabrid, the lateral lobes with 2 ribs that usually 

 are prolonged into filiform processes. Danthonia nervosa and Archeri, Hook. 

 " Fl. Tas." 



Not common, but widely distributed throughout the Island ; also throughout 

 extra-tropical Australia. 



30. EOHINOPOGON. 



Spikelets 1-flowered, the rhachis shortly prolonged ; collected into a dense 

 head. Outer empty glumes 2. Flowering glumes with 2 short lateral lobes and 

 a straight, awn-like, central lobe. 



Containing but one species. 



E. ovATUS, Beauv. Tufted, erect, about 1 foot high. Leaves flat, 2-4 lines 

 broad, hispid to scabiid. Inflorescence ovoid to globular, dense, |-1| inch long. 

 Spikelets numerous, rigid, about 2 lines long. Outer glumes indurated, hirsute. 

 Flowering glume about Ij line long, the lateral lobes short, awn ^ inch long, 

 scabrid. Cinna ovata, Kunth. 



Very common ; also throughout Australia and New Zealand. 



31. CYNODON. 



Spikelets 1-flowered, minute, sessile, in 2 rows along- one side of a I'hachis. 



Inflorescence of few linear spikes, arising from a common centre. Outer empty 

 glumes 2. Flowering glume broad and keeled. 



Common in temperate climates. * 



C. DACTYLON, Pers. Creeping and rooting at the nodes. Leaves short, narrow, 

 flat. Spikes 3-5, slender, about 2 inches long. Spikelets crowded, each about 

 1 line long. Outer glumes shorter than the flowering glume. 



Very common. Possibly indigenous, but introduced near centres of population. 

 ■Common to warni and temperate climates. 



32. SPOROBOLUS. 



Spikelets 1-flowered, minute, in a cylindrical dense panicle. Outer empty 

 glumes 2, smooth, polished. Flowering glume broad and polished. Fruit an 

 utricle. 



Tropical and temperate parts of both Hemispheres. 



S. viRGiNiouB, Kunth. An ascending or erect simple or branched grass, from a 

 few inches to 2 feet high. Leaves short, rigid; and distichous. Inflorescence 

 dense, about 1 inch long, dark. Spikelets numerous, about 1 line long, shining. 

 Glumes nearly equal. Pale rather longer than the flowering glume. 



George's Bay, South Bsk River ; also throughout Australia, It occurs in 

 Asia, Africa, and America. 



