Order GRAMINEfE. 
Genus Poa 
Sub-Order Festucage*;. 
1—POA RAMOS ISSI M A 
Poa ramosissima, Hook, fil., FI. Antarct., I., ioi. 
Poa ramosissima, Hook, fil., Handb. N.Z. FI., I., 338. 
Culms densely tufted, forming naked, rigid, brown, branching, decumbent stems, 6—10 inches long, 
from which much divided, flaccid, very leafy, slender branches, 1 —6 inches long, ascend. Leaves most 
numerous, very narrow, flaccid, flat, ^ inch broad, much longer than the culms ; ligule oblong, truncate; 
sheaths slender. Panicle 1—2, inches long, narrow, green ; branches quite glabrous, smooth, very short, 
A- inch long, interrupted. Spihelets ^ inch 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. 
Distribution of Species: AUCKLAND ISLANDS, CAMPBELL ISLAND. 
No specimen of this grass is in the Colonial Herbarium, and it cannot therefore be figured. It 
has not hitherto been found in New Zealand, but, when it is considered that the large variety of Poa 
foliosa has only recently been collected on the Traps Rocks, a small group of islets south of New 
Zealand, it is possible that the present grass may yet be discovered on Stewart Island or adjacent rocks. 
Quoting from Hooker, Handb. N.Z. Flora, I., 338, “ It is a grass of remarkable habit, from the long, 
naked, decumbent bases of the culms, which are excessively branched and leafy above.” 
