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Subtribe 3. Sporoholece. — Panicle loose or reduced to a raceme, 

 very rarely spiciform. Grlumes, flowering muticus. Caryopsis (grajn) 

 somewhat denuded more frequently than the open glumes. Ehachilla 

 not prolonged. Example: Sporololus (see " Eat's-tail Grass," the 

 " Jil-crow-berry " of the Cloncurry natives). 



Subtribe 4. Euagrostea. — Panicle variable, more frequently 

 loose. Glumes, flowering frequently furnished with a dorsal awn, 

 very rarely muticus. Caryopsis loosely enclosed in a glume. Ehachilla 

 often prolonged. Example: Deyeuxia Forsteri, a soft very light 

 grass. 



Tribe 9. Ateneje. — Spikelets bearing 2 or more flowers, more 

 usually paniculate. Glumes, flowering very frequently furnished with 

 a dorsal awn or sometimes with a terminal one. Ehachilla more 

 usually prolonged beyond the flowers. 



Subtribe 1. Airece. — Spikelets 2-flowered, rhachilla not produced 

 beyond the flowers. Glumes, flowering muticus or rarely slender or 

 shortly aristate. Examples: JEriachne, several species met with in 

 Tropical Queensland. 



Subtribe 2. 'Euavenem. — Spikelets 2 or " numerous, rhachilla 

 prolonged more or less beyond the flowers. Glumes, flowering very 

 often bearing a dorsal or terminal awn, geniculate or twisted. 

 Example : Avena, the Oat. 



Tribe 10. Chxoeide^. — Spikelets with 1 or mpre flowers sessile 

 along the rhachis in 2 series of unilateral or second spikes. Examples : 

 Ohloris, any of the Star-grasses ; and Eleusine, the Crab-grass. 



Tribe 11. Festuce^. — Spikelets with 2 or more flowers variously 

 paniculate or more rarely racemose. Glumes, flowering muticus or 

 terminated in awns. 



Subtribe 1. PappopTiorew. — Flowering glumes many-nerved, 

 furnished with 3 or more awns, or 4-lobed without awns. Example : 

 PappopTiorum. 



Subtribe 2. Triodiece. — ^Flowering glumes 1 or 3-nerved, furnished 

 with 3 teeth (tridentate), 3-cleft (trifid), or S-awns (triari state). 

 Example : Triodia, the so-called Spinifex. 



Subtribe 3. ^r«wJ««e«.— Ehachilla furnished with long hairs 

 below the flowering glumes. Examples : Qynerium, or Pampas Grass ; 

 also the Common Eeed, Phragmites, or the large Bamboo Eeed, Arundo 

 donax. 



Subtribe 4. Seslerieee. — Inflorescence spiciform or capituliform, 

 usually beset at its base with empty glumes or sterile stipites. Style 

 or branches frequently long, slender. Example : Mythophorus articu- 

 latus, a grass found near Eockhampton. 



Subtribe 5. Eragrostew.—FloweTmg glumes 3-nerved, the "rest 

 normal. Example: See any of the species of Eragrostis so -plentiiul 

 in Queensland. 



Subtribe 6. Melicece. — Glumes, flowering with 3 or more nerves, 

 2 or more empty glumes above them enveloping each other. Example : 

 Meterachne. 



