Order GRAMINEAE. 
Genus Deschampsia. 
Sub-Order Avenace/e. 
Genus XVII.—DESCHAMPSIA, Beauvois. 
Spikelets 2—3, rarely, 1-flowered. Panicles large, slender-branched, rarely contracted. Empty glumes 
2, nearly equal. Flowering glumes 2—3, and a terminal imperfect one, truncate, 4-toothed, awn 
dorsel, short, straight, obtuse. Palea 2-nerved, 2-fid at the tip. Scales 2. Stamens 3. Grain free. 
Distribution of Genus: TEMPERATE REGIONS OF TPIE NORTHERN AND 
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES. 
1.—DESCHAMPSIA CJESPTTOSA. 
TURFY HAIR GRASS. 
(Plate XXXVII.) 
Air a Kingii, El. Antarct., 376, t. 135. 
Triodia splendida, Steudel. 
Aira australis, Raoul. 
Agrostis Aucklandica, FI. Antarct., L, 96. 
Deschampsia c^espitosa, Beauv. Hook, hi., FI. N.Z., I., 301 
Deschampsia caRSPiTosA, Beauv. Hook, hi, Handb. N.Z. Flora, I., 334. 
A tall, glabrous, shining, perennial grass, found from sea-level to 3500 feet altitude. Flowers 
December—February. Culms 1—3 feet high. Leaves involute, long or short; ligule long, acute. 
Panicle open, 3—12 inches long, one-sided, branches slender, whorled or fascicled, scaberulous. Spikelets 
—-f-mch long. Empty glumes nearly equal, linear-oblong, acute, 1—3-nerved. Flowering glume 
truncate and 4-toothed at the top, 5-nerved, awn basal, as long as the glume, pedicel with tufts of long 
hairs. Palea bifid at top, 2-nerved. Scales unequally 2-lobed. Distribution of Species : A 
WIDELY-DIFFUSED GRASS IN THE TEMPERATE ZONES OF BOTH THE 
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES, WITH THE SAME RANGE AS THE 
GENUS. 
