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The spike-like inflorescence is usually of a somewhat dark 
Neither of these grasses will thrive far from brackish water, but 
such localities they form excellent fattening pasture. } 
pee plants in a similar manner to the common straw 
thin and often 1 line broad on the trailing stems. The inflorescence 
is a very narrow, loose, spike-like panicle 2 to 4 in. long. Glumes 
narrow and nearly or quite transparent. The whole plant 1s pale. 
coloured. 
Hab.: About the Diamantina and Georgina Rivers, where it is considered 
excellent pasture grass. : 
Probably this and the va. minor of S. virginicus given above constitute 
part the grass mentioned in Fl. Austr. vii. 621 as var.? pallida, a name that onal 
not now be used for a species, there being one already so named, 
NOTES ON TWO REMARKABLE GROWTHS OF FERNS - 
BELONGING TO THE GENERA ASPLENIVM AND 
POLYPODIUM. | 
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entirely defy one’s power. of adequately giving in words anys 
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the wild state and brought them under cultivation, and it, 7 " 
acknowledged that the plants"thus obtained have amply repaid al’ 
care and trouble bestowed upon them. Those I now desire ba 
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is bush-house. Mr, E. Cowley, of Kamerunga, from whom “T° 
the specimens, says that the forked fronds (Plate I., Fig. 1) ate 9) ate 
formed, but those with the laciniate margins (Plate i. ee f 
very numerous, The normal form with entire margins he spor 
Fig. 3) are also found on the plants. I have named : nique 
Asplenium i, ah ba var. laciniatum, and hope th ve eee : 
form will not be long before it gets into the nurserymen § a 
t us become one of the adornments of the bush-house. 
e second of these growths is a sport from 
the Synopsis of the Queensland Flora, page 64, under 
0 of t , page 64, un ae 
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