vegetation. It is evidently much relished by stock, and is worthy of introduction in sand-hill districts 
near the sea, or saline soil inland, of little value for other herbage, as it would clothe the wet flats with 
a valuable sward. This is another of those grasses, similar to JPaspalum distichum, which will be easiest 
propagated by roots, the close-matted wiry fibres forming coherent masses of turf, which are easily 
conveyed in fragments to a distance without injury. Distribution in New Zealand: NORTH 
ISLAND : BAY OF ISLANDS—Sinclair; WAIKATO, MAKETU, AND LAKE DISTRICT— 
Kirk; TITIRANGI—Cheeseman; TAURANGA—Buchanan. SOUTH ISLAND: NELSON— 
Monro; CANTERBURY—Armstrong. 
Reference to Plate XIII. A: Fig. i. Plant. 2. Spikelet. 3. Floret. 4. Nervation of empty 
glume. 5. Nervation of flowering glume. 6. Ovary with feathery stigmas. 7, 7'. Grain, front and 
side views. 
