Order GRAMINEyE. 
Germs Glycekia. 
Sub-Order F estucace®. 
Genus XX— GLYCERIA, R. Brown. 
Spikelets few, several-flowered, pedicellate in a narrow or contracted panicle. Empty glumes unequal 
obtuse or acute, awnless. Flowering glumes imbricated, obtuse, awnless. Palea nearly as long as the 
glume. Scales i—2, connate. Stamens 2—3. Grain glabrous, free. Distribution of Genus : 
TEMPERATE REGIONS OF THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES. 
Etymology : From the Greek word “glyceros,” sweet. 
1 .— G LYCE EIA STRICT 'A 
SWEET GRASS. 
{Plate XL I. A.) 
Glyceria stricta. Hook, fib, FI. Tasm., II., 123, t. 162B. 
Glyceria stricta. Hook, fil., FI. N.Z., I., 304. 
Glyceria stricta. Hook, fil., Benth., FI. Austral., VII., 658. 
Poa syrtica, F. Muell. Trans. Viet. Inst., 1855, 45. 
Festuca syrtica, F. Muell. Fragm., VIII., 130. 
Glyceria stricta. Hook, fil., Hand. N.Z. Flora, I., 336. 
An erect, tufted, glabrous grass. Flowers December—March. Perennial. Culms 4—24 inches high. 
L eaves shorter than the culms , 2—6 inches long, very narrow, involute; sheaths large, striate; ligule 
short, broad. Panicle 2—6 inches long, branches erect, whorled, lower longest, spreading when in 
flower. Spikelets few, 5—10 flowered. Empty glumes very unequal, lower 1-nerved, upper 3-nerved. 
Flowering glume obtuse, 5-nerved, none of the nerves reaching the top. Scales obliquely ovate, acute. 
Grain linear. Distribution op Species: AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, NEW ZEALAND. 
This grass is not uncommon on the margins of littoral swamps or on sandhills near the sea, and 
is eaten with much relish by all kinds of stock, the juicy sweetness so characteristic of the genus 
proving so strong an attraction for sheep, that in many places they prevent it from flowering, so that it 
is often overlooked by collectors. It is, no doubt, a grass of much value, but is not worth the trouble 
of cultivation, more especially as a superior introduced species of the same genus, Glyceria Jluitans, is 
spreading abundantly in swampy places, and can easily be propagated by inoculation. Distribution 
