herbage. As a fodder grass it would produce less bulk than its large size might suggest, as the leaves 
are short and soft, and the greater part of its nutrient properties would be found in the culms and 
spikes. This is the case, however, more or less, with every grass; but the proportion of leaves to 
culms, in this case, is a minimum. Distribution in New Zealand : NORTH AND SOUTH 
ISLANDS : COMMON NEAR THE SEA AND ON INLAND HILLS. 
Reference to Plate LVI. B.: Fig. i. Plant. 2. Spikelet. 3. Floret. 4, 4'. Nervation of empty 
glumes. 5. Nervation of flowering glume. 6. Nervation of Palea. 73 7', 7". Varieties of scale. 
9, 9', 9." Grain, front and side views, and section. 
