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Poa.’ Lin. 
Poa sclerophylla, n.sp. (Berggren).— Rigid, glaucous, harsh; culms. 
and sheaths compressed ; leaves curved conduplicate rigid pungent 
harsh; ligule produced cuspidate; panicle contracted spiciform 
shining-white; spikelets obovate subtriflorate; glumes longer than 
the palea with scabrid keel, and the palea oval blunt and white- 
membranous at the margin and apex. 
This is P. anceps (Forst.) var. c. alpina of Hooker F. in the 
Handbook. 
Habitat: Mt. Torlesse, Canterbury. 
This species differs from P. anceps (Forst.) in its conduplicate 
rigid glaucous harsh leaves shorter than the culm; (Here as in some 
other places Dr. Berggren’s Latin is rather obscure), its produced 
ligule, its spiciform shining panicle, its obovate few-flowered spikelets, 
and its glumes longer than the membranous palea. 
Poa pusilla, u.sp. (Berggren).—Smooth, low; rhizome creeping ; 
culms capillary, distant erect or ascending; sheaths compressed 
grooved ; leaves distichous curved involute setaceous striate ;. ligule 
very short ciliate; panicle simple, branches 2-4 capillary bearing a 
single smooth spikelet (or two on the lowermost); glumes of nearly 
equal length, acute; flowers 2-3 approximate; palea shorter (=in- 
feriore) broadly ovate obtuse or mucronate woolly at the base. 
Habitat: Sandy spots, Bealey river, Canterbury. 
li differs from 2. anceps (Forst.) in its low habit, filiform culms, 
very short setaceous convex deeply grooved leaves, and simple few- 
flowered panicle; and from P. exigua (Hook. f.) in its pedunculate 
spikelets, acute glumes, lower palea woolly at the base ovate mucro- 
nate but not orbiculate, its glumes and palea pale but not purple and 
broadly white-membranous at the margin. 
AGcrostis. Lain. 
Agrostis emula (R. Br.), var. B spathacea, n.subsp. (Berggren).— 
Minute ccespitose; culm 1-2 lines long, included in the sheaths; leaves 
with the sheaths 4 inch long glaucous filiform involute flaccid ; ligule 
elongate subulate ; the lax white membranous sheaths as long as the 
leaves or shorter by a half; panicle crowded capituliform scarcely 
longer than the sheath; spikelets 2-6 sessile or shortly pedunculate 
pale; glumes ovate acute scabrid on the back; palea shorter (=in- 
feriore) ovate truncate; awn none. : 
Habitat: Base of Mts. Tongariro and Ruapehu, near Omatangi, 
Lake Taupo. 2-3,000 feet. 
