Order GRAMINEiE, 
Genus Triticum. 
Sub-Order Hordeace®. 
3.—TRITICUM YOUNGII. 
Triticum Youngii, Hook, fib, Handb. N.Z. FI. 
Leaves quite glabrous below, slightly scabrid on the upper surface. Spike 2—3 inches long, of 3 or 4 
very large spikelets 4 inches long including the awns. Empty glumes ^ inch long, acuminate 
margins membranous. Flowering glumes nearly % inch long without the awn, which is i-^—2 inches 
long, very stout, rigid, scabrid, concave at the back, concave in front with scabrid edges, margin and 
sides of glumes scabrid and almost aculeate. Distribution of Species: MIDDLE ISLAND: 
GRASSY FLATS, SOURCES OF THE WAITAKI, AT 3000 FEET ALTITUDE—Haast. 
There is no specimen of this grass in the Colonial Herbarium, and cannot therefore be figured. 
This appears to be a very rare grass, and probably confined to the district in which it was originally 
discovered. Hooker says of it, Handb. N.Z. FI., I., 343, “ A remarkable plant, with few spikelets, 
almost twice as large as those of Triticum scabrum , and very long rigid awns.” 
