1882 CLIII. GRAMINEiE. [Sporobolus. 



in a loose pericarp, as in S. ^dchellus. — Turner Austr. Gr. 53 ; S. pallidm, 

 Lindl. in. Mitch. Trop. Austr. 187, not of Nees ; Vilfa Lindleyi, Stead. Syn. 

 Glum. i. 162 ; S. stibtilis, P. v. M. Fragm. viii. 140, not of Kunth. 



Hab.: Maranoa, Mitchell ; Bokhara Flats, Leichhardt ; Gracemere, Bowman ; Curriwillighie,. 

 Dalton. 



Grain used for food by Cloncurry natives. — Palmer and Roth. 



In general this species is very distant from S. pulchellus, both in foliage and in spikelets,, 

 but some specimens almost connect the two. 



7. S. actinocladus (branches rayed), F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 140; Benth. FL 

 Atistr. vii. 628. " Cooeheramunda," Georgina, Coghlan ; " Katura," Boulia, 

 Roth. Stems 1 to 2ft. high. Leaves flat, tapering to fine points, glabrous. 

 Panicle pyramidal, 3 to Sin. long, the branches numerous, spreading, the 

 lower ones or nearly all verticillate at regular intervals, the upper ones 

 scattered, all capillary and shortly bare at the base, but bearing narrow dense 

 spikelike partial panicles of \ to lin. Spikelets sessile and crowded, nearly 



1 line long. Outer glume very small, hyaline, almost obtuse ; 2nd yery acute,, 

 keeled, | to f line long ; flowering glume similar but longer. Palea divided into> 



2 from the base, even at the time of flowering. Seed enclosed in a loose 

 pericarp. — Bail. 111. Mono. Gr. Q. i. ; Vilfa or Agrostis actinoclada, F. v. M- 

 Fragm. vi. 84. 



Hab.: A very common inland grass. 



Grain used for food by Boulia natives. — Eotli. 



58. AGROSTIS, Linn, partly. 



(From agros, a field ; the Greek name for a kind of grass.) 



(Agrostis and Triohodium, Nees.) 



Spikelets small, 1-flowered, pedicellate in a loose spreading or narrow panicle, 

 the rhachis of the spikelet articulate above the outer glumes, glabrous or nearly 

 so, not produced beyond the flower. Glumes 3, 2 outer empty ones narrow, 

 keeled, acute, unawned. Flowering glume shorter, broad, thin, enveloping the 

 flower, unawned or with a dorsal awn, attached below the middle, fine and 

 twisted. Palea not above half the length of the glume, very thin and hyaline, 

 often very minute or none. Styles very short, distinct. Grain enclosed in the 

 glume, free from it. 



The genus as now limited is still very generally spread over the temperate and some warmer 

 regions of both hemispheres. 



1. A., scabra (rough), Willd. Spec. PL i. 370; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 576. 

 Stems slender, tufted. Bin. to above 1ft. high. Leaves very narrow, almost 

 filiform in the typical form, chiefly at the base of the stem. Panicle compound, 

 very loose and slender, with spreading capillary branches. Outer glumes narrow, 

 keeled, rather acute, about f line long. Flowering glume shorter, hyaline, 

 broad and enveloping the flower, obtuse truncate or slightly jagged, unawned. 

 Palea none or very minute. Stamens 3. — A. parviflora, R. Br. Prod. 170; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. Il3, t. 158 ; Buch. In. Gr. N.Z. PI. xx. C; A. intricata, 

 Nees in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 413 ; Trichodium laxifloruw, Mich. Fl. Bor. 

 Am. i. 42, t. 8 ; Agrostis la.viflora, Richards ; Kunth, Rev. Gram. t. 130. 



Hab.: Stanthorpe. 



This has been identified by Munro with a common North American species which has a wide 

 range and has been published under various names, of which Willdenow's has the right of 

 priority, except perhaps a very inappropriate one of Fraser's. — Benth. 



59. DEYEUXIA, Clarion. 

 (After Nicholas Deyeux.) 

 (Bromidium, Nees.) 

 Spikelets 1-flowered, pedicellate or rarely sessile in a panicle either loose and 

 spreading or narrow and spike-like, the rhachis of the spikelet articulate above 

 the outer glumes, usually bearing a tuft of hairs round the flowering glume , and 



