Order GRAMINEflE. 
Genus Danthonia. 
Sub-Order Avenace^e. 
7— DANTHONIA PILOSA, Yak, stricta. 
HARD OAT GRASS. 
(Plate XXXIII.2. A.) 
A straight rigid grass. Flowers November—January. Culms i 2-feet high, rigid, pilose. Leaves 
few, flat or involute, short, pilose, sheathing leaves short. Panicle similar to that of the species, but 
harder. Florets glabrous, pencils of hair on back sometimes reduced to one hair, a circle of hairs round 
the base, awns shorter and less coloured than in the species. Distribution in New Zealand : 
SAME AS SPECIES. 
Reference to Plate XXXIII.2. A.; Fig. 1. Plant after flowering. 2. Spikelet. 3. Floret. 
4. Nervation of empty glumes. 3. Nervation of flowering glume. 6. Palea. 7. Scale. 8. Ovary, &c. 
7 —DANTHONIA PILOSA, Vail bacemosa. 
EACEMED OAT GRASS. 
(Plate XXX 11 1 . 2 . B.) 
A slender drooping grass. Flowers December—January. Culms 1 2-feet high, weak, glabrous 01 
pilose. Leaves few, very narrow, involute or flat, glabrous or pilose, sheathing leaves short. Panicle 
racemose, drooping, with few distant spikelets. Florets the same as in var. stricta. Distribution 
in New Zealand : SAME RANGE AS SPECIES. 
Reference to Plate XXXIII.2. B.: Fig. 1. Plant after flowering. 2. Floret. 3. Scales, showing 
their method of growth from the rachis. The rachis of the next flower articulates at the side as a branch 
in Danthonia; the scales appear first as 2, membraneous, linear-oblong, obtuse, or tapering leaves, which 
afterwards split up on the upper part into cilia. The stigmas also of several grasses have been observed 
to be well developed, before separating from a similar membrane. 
