on the top. Distribution op Species: NEW ZEALAND, QUEENSLAND, NEW SOUTLI 
WALES, VICTORIA, TASMANIA. 
The present species was collected by Mr. Petrie, on Swampy Hill, near Dunedin, but, as it is a 
common grass in Australia, and having only been found in the vicinity of extensive grass cultivations 
and of a shipping port, must be considered as a doubtful native until it has been found in other places; 
nevertheless, as few collectors have given much attention till recently to this family of plants, it may 
have been hitherto overlooked. Should this grass prove indigenous to New Zealand, it will be necessary, 
for the purpose of preventing confusion, that the genus Deyeuxia be added to the flora, in consequence 
of Agrostis parviflora , a New Zealand species, having been identified with a common North American 
species, Agrostis scabra , Willd, “Flora Australiensis, VII., 576;” and as Hooker, in his arrangement 
of the New Zealand grasses, has united Deyeuxia and Agrostis , confusion would arise from having two 
species with the same specific name. It would therefore be necessary, in any future arrangement, that such 
an anomaly should be provided for by separating the two genera. Distribution of Species in New 
Zealand : SWAMPY HILL, DUNEDIN—W. Petrie. 
Reference to Plate XXVI. 2. : Fig. 1. Plant. 2. Spikelet. 3. Floret. 4,4. Nervation of empty 
glumes. 5. Nervation of flowering glume. 6. Nervation of Palea. 7. Scale. 8. Ovary. 
