Order GRAMINE/E. 
Genus Agrostis. 
Sub-Order Agrostide^. 
7.—AGROSTIS PILOSA. 
PILOSE BENT GRASS. 
{Plate XX//.) 
Agrostis pilosa, A. Richard. Flora, I., 134, t. 23. Hook, fil., FI. N.Z., I., 297. Handb. 
N.Z. Flora, I., 329. 
A larger and more robust grass than the last. Flowers November—March. Annual or Perennial. 
Culms tufted, 12—36 inches high. Leaves flat, scaberulous on the edges, and sometimes pilose at 
bottom; ligule broad, short and rounded at top. Panicle large, 6—18 inches long, 3—10 inches 
broad, branches whorled, scaberulous. Spikelets ^-inch long, on slender scaberulous pedicels. Empty 
glumes nearly equal, margins and keel scabrid, i-nerved. Flowering glume sessile, truncate, with 
4 prominent teeth, 5-nerved, pilose, awned near the middle of the back. Falea oblong, bifid, 2-nerved. 
Scales entire, narrow-lanceolate, acute. Stigmas nearly sessile. Distribution of Species : NEW 
ZEALAND, CHATHAM ISLANDS. 
This is an abundant and wide-spread grass in both Islands, from sea-level to 3000 feet altitude. It 
differs much from the previous species A. csmula, in its larger size and more robust habit, in its more 
silky or pilose flowering glume, more distinct prolongation of the rachis at back of palea, terminating 
in a pencil of silky hairs, and broader pilose leaves. In rich damp ground not subject to summer 
droughts this grass is perennial, and acquires in such places considerable bulk; it is closely cropped by 
cattle and sheep, and may be considered a valuable grass both as late and early feed; specimens 
having been collected in the Botanical Garden, Wellington, in flower, during the late severe winter. 
Distribution in New Zealand: NORTH ISLAND: MOUNTAINOUS DISTRICTS OF 
THE INTERIOR—Colenso. WELLINGTON—Buchanan. SOUTH ISLAND: ASTROLABE 
HARBOUR, D’URVILLE ISLAND, NELSON. SUB-ALPINE DISTRICTS: NELSON—H. 
H. Travers. SOUTHERN ALPS, CANTERBURY—Sinclair, Haast; OTAGO LAKE DISTRICT 
•—Hector and Buchanan; DUNEDIN—Buchanan; CHATHAM ISLANDS—H. H. Travers. 
Reference to Plate XXII.: Fig. 1. Plants. 2. Spikelet. 3. Floret. 4. Nervation of empty 
glumes. 5. Nervation of flowering glume. 6. Nervation of Palea. 7. Scale. 8. Ovary. 
