33S 
XII. GR.AMINE.ffi. 
[Poa. 
broad ; ligule oblong. Panicle lax, oblong, 3-5 in. long ; branches in pairs 
or threes, capillary, suberect, with 2 or 3 pedicelled, green, 3- or 4-flowered 
spikelets in. long towards their tips. Empty glumes small, very unequal, 
oblong, obtuse, lower half the length of the flowering glume or shorter, upper 
larger; flowering glumes oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, on nearly gla- 
brous pedicels, green, strongly 3-5-nerved. 
Northern Island, Banks and Solander. Middle Island : Akaroa, Raoul ; Saddle 
Hill, Otago, Lindsay. Campbell’s Island, grassy places near the sea, J. D. H. This 
differs from P. imbecilla, of which it may be a variety, in its stouter habit, the larger size of 
all its parts, and more acute flowering glumes, with much stronger nerves. The outer empty 
glume is shorter in Campbell’s Island than in any New Zealand specimens, and sometimes 
toothed at the tip. 
3. P. ramosissima, Hoolc. f. ; — FI. Antarct. i. 101. Culms densely 
tufted, forming naked, rigid, brown, branching, decumbent stems, 6-10 in. long, 
from which much-divided, flaccid, very leafy, slender branches, 2-6 in. long, 
ascend. Leaves most numerous, very narrow, flaccid, flat, £ in. broad, much 
longer than the culms ; ligule oblong, truncate ; sheaths slender. Panicle 
1-2 in. long, narrow, green ; branches quite glabrous, smooth, very short, |- 
in. long, interrupted. Spikelets x in. long, very shortly pedicelled, glabrous, 
green, 3-5-flowered. Empty glumes lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved, nearly 
equal, as long as the flowering, which are narrower, glabrous, acuminate with 
incurved tips, obscurely 5 -nerved, pedicel glabrous or a little webbed. 
Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island, abundant everywhere, J. I). H. 
A grass of remarkable habit, from the long, naked, decumbent bases of the culms, which are 
excessively branched and leafy above. 
4. P. foliosa. Hook. f. — Festuca foliosa, El. N. Z. i. 308. Culms 
stout, tufted, short or tall, 1-3 ft. high. Leaves flat, glabrous, coriaceous, 
shorter or longer than the culms, JL— j in. broad ; ligule short, membranous ; 
sheaths compressed. Panicle rather dense, oblong or ovate, inclined, 1-10 
in. long ; branches short, nearly glabrous, erect. Spikelets large, J in. 
long, much compressed, green or purplish, 4-8-flowered, very shortly pedi- 
celled. Empty glumes lanceolate, acuminate, tips often slightly incurved, as 
long as the flowering glumes, which are broader, acuminate, tips incurved, 
much compressed, slightly scabrid or glabrous, keel smooth or ciliate, pedicel 
webbed. 
Var. a. Culms 2-3 ft. high, very leafy. Leaves longer than the culm. Panicle 6-10 
in. long. Empty glumes longer in proportion to the spikelet. — Festuca foliosa, FI. Antarct. 
i. 99. t. 55. 
Var. £. Culms 6-12 in. high, leafy at the base only. Leaves much shorter than the 
culms. Panicle 1-6 in. long. Spikelets larger in proportion to the glumes. 
Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island : var. a, common near the sea and 
on the hills. Middle Island : var. y8, Milford Sound, Lyall; Southern Alps, Sinclair, 
Haast, and Tracers ; snow holes on Mount Darwin and Richardson glacier, alt. 4-6500 ft. ; 
Otago, lake district. Hector and Buchanan. The very acute glumes with the tips usually 
more or less inclined to be incurved, well distiuguish this from all but P. ramosissima. 
Some of Haast’s and Hector’s specimens have spikelets very large and broad. 
5. P. exigua, Hook.f. n. sp. A very minute, tufted, glabrous, flaccid 
species, 1-1 £ in. high. Leaves involute, erect, subulate, obtuse, | in. long, 
sheaths membranous ; ligule 0, or very short. Panicle almost reduced to an 
erect raceme, l in. long, narrow, of few shortly-pedicelled, purplish, broadly 
