Danthonia.] CLIII. GRAMINE^. 1891 



loosely-branched, pale-coloured, 3 to 6in. long. Spikelets rather numerous, the 

 outer glumes under ^in. long. Flowering glumes 3 or 4, not exceeding the 

 outer ones, with long hairs on the back as well as on the margins, but scattered 

 or in vertical lines, without the transverse ring of D. semiannularis ; lateral lobes 

 lanceolate, 3-nerved at the base, often scarious upwards, but the central nerve 

 •continued to the apex or produced into a point or a short awn. — Trin. Spec. Gram. 

 t. 65 ; Fieb. Agrostoth. n. 84, 85, 92. 



Hab.: Southern localities. Always affording good pasture. 



Tar. subracemosa. Panicle narrow, very little branched. Marginal hairs of the flowering 

 glumes copious, those on the back less so than in the typical form. 



Hab.: Warwick, Beckler. 



3. S. longifolia (leaves long), R. Br. Prod. 176 ; Benth. Jil. Austr. vii. 598. 

 Stems densely tufted, 1 to 2ft. high. Leaves long and filiform, often rather rigid 

 and curved, quite glabrbus,' without any cilia at the orifice of the sheath. Panicle 

 dense, pale-coloured, ovate or narrow, 3 to 4in. long. Outer glumes exceeding 

 the spikelet, 4 to 6 lines long. Flowering glumes 3 to 5, very short, almost 

 covered with soft hairs, the upper ones very long, the 2 lobes broad and short, 

 usually with long awns, very fine as well as the longer central one. — Sieb. 

 Agrostoth. n. 83. 



Hab.: Upper Brisbane River, F. v. Mueller ; and other southern localities. 

 A good pasture grass, especially on rich land. 



4. S. racemosa (racemose), A. Br. Prod. 177 ; Benth. Fl. Amtr. vii. 594. 

 Stems slender, 1 to 2ft. high. Leaves very narrow, almost setaceous, glabrous 

 or sprikled with spreading hairs. Spikelets in the typical form singly and very 

 shortly pedicellate or almost sessile and rather distant along the rhachis of a 

 simple raceme, but sometimes more approximate and the lower pedicels with 2 

 spikelets. Spikelets narrow, erect, under Jin. long, the outer glumes nearly as 

 long. Flowering glumes 6 to 8, or more in sojjae varieties, hairy at the base and 

 margins, glabrous or with very few hairs on the back, but the hairs variable, the 

 marginal ones sometimes long in a dense tuft on each side of the lobes, some- 

 times in several distinct marginal tufts. Lateral lobes in the typical form broad 

 with short fine points, but more awned in some varieties. 



Hab.: Darling Downs to Wallnngarra. A good sheep pasture grass. 



Var. obtusata, F. v. M. A smaller plant. Leaves more hairy. Lateral lobes of the flowering 

 glumes with scarcely any points. Hab. : Inland southern localities. 



Var. biaristata. Lateral lobes of the flowering glumes broad, but with rather long points or 

 awns. Hab.: Inland southern localities. 



Var. multiflora. Spikelets often 2 together and all approximate. Flowers rather numerous 

 in the spikelet. Hab. : Inland southern localities. 



Hab : Warwick, Beckler ; Darling Downs and nther southern localities. 



5. 3>. pilosa (pilose), R. Bi. Prod. 117 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 5)4. Stems 

 rather slender, 1 to 2ft. high. Leaves chiefly in radical tufts, very narrow, 

 usually more or less hairy, the hairs sometimes long and spreading. Panicle 

 narrow and dense, not much branched and sometimes almost as simple as 

 in D. racemosa. Spikelets shortly pedicellate, about ^in. long, the outer 

 glumes about as long ; flowering glumes 6 to 8 with lanceolate lobes tapering 

 into fine awns almost as in D. semiannularis, but hairy on the margins only 

 without the transverse ring under the lobes of that species, and very few hairs 

 if any on the back except at the base. — Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 120 ; Sieb. 

 Agrostoth. n. 57 ; Buch. Ind. Gr. N.Z., PL xxxiii. 



Hab.: Southern localities. 



An excellent pasture grass which, like others of the genus, seeds freely, and gives good feed in 

 early spring. 



6. I>. semiannularis (^-ringed), R. Br. Prod. Ill ; Benth. Fl. Amtr. vii. 

 695. New Zealand Oat Grass. A variable plant, the stems usually 2 to 3ft. 

 high, but sometimes much shorter. Leaves very narrow, flat or convolute, the 



