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yellow, green towards the keeled tip, which is sometimes produced into an 
awn more than half its own length . — Rottbcellia uniflora , A. Cunn. 
Northern Island: sandy and muddy places, generally near the sea, from the Bay of 
Islands southwards. Middle Island : Motucka valley, Munro. 
Anthistiria australis, Br. , the Kangaroo-grass of Australia, has been gathered by Sinclair 
near Auckland, but is not indigenous. 
Andropogon refractus, Br., is an Australian Grass, of which I find a solitary specimen, 
without locality or ticket, in A. Cunningham’s Herbarium, probably accidentally introduced 
there. 
Apluda mutica, Linn. Of this, a common tropical Indian Grass, I find a single spe- 
cimen, without ticket or locality, amongst Sinclair’s Auckland plants. 
10. ECHINOPOGON, Palisot. 
Culms tufted, erect, simple, scabrid. Leaves flat. Panicle contracted to 
an oblong or ovoid, dense spike, bristling with rigid awns. — Spikelets sub- 
sessile, horizontal, 1-flowered, green. Empty glumes equal, as long as or 
longer than the flowering, rigid, acuminate ; flowering one with a silky pencil 
of hairs at the base, 2-fid at the tip; awn terminal, long, rigid, not twisted. 
Pale as long as the glume, with a short stiff pedicel at its base. Stamens 3. 
Ovary bearded at the top. Grain free. 
A genus of one species, differing from Agrostis in habit, inflorescence, the rigid glumes, 
terminal awn, and ovary bearded at top. 
1. E. ovatus, Palisot; — FI. N. Z. i. 298. A harsh, very scabrid 
Grass,- 6-24 in. high; sheath of upper leaf long. Spike } in. long. — 
Agrostis ovata,~F orst. ; — Labill. El. Nov. PIoll. i. 19. t. 21 ; Hystericina alope- 
curoides, Steudel. 
Abundant throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and Solander, etc. 
Also abundant in Southern Australia, Tasmania, and Norfolk Island. 
11. DICHELACHNE, Endlicher. 
Erect, rigid, tufted, annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat subulate or 
convolute. Inflorescence a contracted panicle. — Spikelets long and narrow, 
1-flowered, shining. Empty glumes 2, membranous, acuminate ; flowering one 
as long, on a bearded pedicel, scabrid or silky, 2-fid or entire at the tip, with 
a straight twisted or flexuous awn from the back or from between the lobes, 
which is not jointed nor thickened at the base. Pale shorter, linear, 2 -fid. 
Scales 2. Stamens 3. Grain long, terete, free. 
A small genus, natives of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. 
Perennial. Culms stout, 1-3 ft. high. Spikelets 1-J in. long . . . 1. 1). stipoides. 
Annual. Culms slender. Panicle dense. Spikelets J in. long . . . 2. B. crinita. 
Annual. Culms slender. Panicle lax. Spikelets 1 in. long , . . . 3. It. sciurea. 
1. D. stipoid.es, IIooJc. f. PI. N. Z. i. 294. t. 66. Densely tufted, 
rigid, erect, smooth, polished, handsome, 1-3 ft. high. Leaves longer than 
the culms, very slender, erect, involute. Panicle strict, erect, 4-6 in. long ; 
branches few, short, capillary, erect. Glumes membranous, f in. long, 
lanceolate, acuminate ; flowering one shorter, covered with silky, spreading 
hairs. Awn curved, 1 in. long, glabrous . — Agrostis rigida, A. Richard ; 
Biclielachne rigida, Steud. 
