50. Triodia* 



GR AMINE AE. 



75 



2. T. irritans, R. Br. Resembles the preceding ; leaves pungent, glabrous ; panicle 

 narrow, 12-30 cm. long ; spikelets 10-20 mm. long, 4-12-flowered ; outer glumes 5-11 mm. 

 long, glabrous, acute, sub-5-nerved, much shorter than the flowers ; the midnerve of the 

 flowering glume ending in a mucro shorter than the 2 obtuse lateral lobes, the glume 

 more or less silky-villous in the lower half, straw-colored or purplish. 



Adelaide northwards to Flinders Range ; Murray lands ; Far West. 



Plate 3— Triodia lanata, J. M. Black. 



