Order GRAMINEfiE. 
Genus Trisetum. 
Sub-Order Avenace^. 
Genus XIX.—TRISETUM, Kunth* 
Spikelets 2—3-flowered, rarely 4-flowered. Panicles open or contracted. Empty glumes 2, unequal. 
Flowering glumes 2—3, with a terminal imperfect one, 2-fid at the tip ; awn from between the divisions 
twisted and recurved. Falea 2-nerved, 3—4-toothed at top, Scales 2. Grain free, glabrous. 
Distribution of Genus: TEMPERATE AND SUB-ALPINE REGIONS OF BOTH 
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES. Etymology: Name “Trisetum,” Latin, 
from the flowering glume being sometimes 3-awned. 
Arrangement of the Species :— 
1. T. antarcticum. 
2. T. subspicatum . 
3. T. Youngii. 
Glabrous, shining, 1—2-feet high. Panicle lax, spreading 
Downy, 6—12-inches high. Panicle spiciform 
Pilose, 1 — 3-feet high. Panicle slender, contracted 
1.—TRISETUM ANTARCTICUM. 
SHINING OAT GRASS. 
( Plate XXXIX.) 
AlRA ANTARCTICA, ForSt. 
Avena Antarctica, Roem. and Sell. 
Avena forsteri, Kunth. 
Danthonia ANTARCTICA, Sprengel. 
Danthonia pallida, A. Cunn. 
Trisetum antarcticum, Trinius. Hook, fil., FI. NZ,, I., 302, t. 68 b. 
Trisetum antarcticum, Trinius. Hook, fil., Handb. N.Z. Flora, I., 335. 
A glabrous, shining, perennial grass, found from sea-level to 6000 feet altitude. Flowers December—- 
February. Culms 1_2-feet high. Leaves flat or involute, long or short, often setaceous, pilose, 
becoming scaberulous after casting the hairs; ligule short, truncate, often with long silky hairs on each 
