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x a membranous. Panicle lax, strict, erect, glabrous, 4-8in. long ; rhachis 
“i smooth; branches whorled, capillary, each with 2-5 spikelets; pedicels 
: minutely scaberulous. Spikelets }in. long without the awn, pale whitish- 
green. Two outer glumes almost equal, lanceolate, acuminate, very thin 
& ~~ and membranous, almost hyaline, glabrous; 8rd or flowering glume much 
‘ © shorter, rigid, convolute, brownish, densely villous, entire at the tip; 
d awn very slender, glabrous, 1-14 in. long. Palea linear, silky, 2-nerved. 
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 11 (1860) 110, t. 1578; Benth. Fl. Austral. 
Fat Stamens 3. ‘ 
© vii (1878) 568; 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv (1882) 386; Petrie in 
eal Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix (1887) 3826; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 858. 
8. Petriei, Buch. N.Z. Grasses (1879) t. 17, i. 
q SoutH IstanpD: Otago—Cromwell, Kurow, Duntroon, and other localities in the 
, interior of Otago, Petrie / 500-1500 ft. 
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wl f i A common Australian plant, stretching from Queensland to Tasmania. It is 
es 4 probably naturalized in New Zealand. 
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13. ECHINOPOGON Beauv. \#%* 2 
An erect or ascending glabrous grass. Leaves flat. Spikelets 1-flowered, 
» crowded in a short and dense spike-like panicle; rhachilla disarticulating 
« above the 2 outer glumes, produced beyond the flower into a short bristle. 
Glumes 3; 2 outer subequal, persistent, empty, awnless, keeled, acute ; 
‘» 3rd or flowering glume broad, thin, 5-nerved, 3-lobed at the tip, the lateral 
lobes short and acute, the middle one produced into a straight stiff awn. 
Palea shorter than the flowering glume, narrow, 2-nerved. Lodicules 2. 
Stamens 3. Styles distinct; stigmas shortly plumose. Grain free within 
the flowering glume. 
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as well as In ew Zealand. > 
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1. E. ovatus pBeauv. Agrost. (1812) 42, t. 9.—Culms laxly tufted, 
decumbent at the hase, erect above, slender, stiff, minutely scabrid above, 
J-24in. high. Leaves 1-6in. long, }-+in. broad, flat, striate, margins 
and both surfaces harsh and scabrid ; sheaths rather long, closely appressed, 
deeply striate, scabrid with reversed projections; ligule short, mem- 
branous, lacerate. Spike-like panicle varying in size from 4-1} in. long, 
ovoid-globose to narrow-oblong, bristling with the long awns; branches 
short, densely packed. Spikelets compressed, 4-1} in. long without the 
awns. ‘Two outer glumes subequal, lanceolate, acute, sharply keeled, 
keel very prominent, green, ciliate; 3rd or flowering glume equalling or 
slightly exceeding the empty glumes, broad, furnished at the base with a 
pencil of silky hairs, awn rigid, scabrous, 4-3 in. long. Palea linear-oblong, 
2-nerved, with a hairy bristle-like continuation of the rhachilla at its back.— 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 298; Handb. N.Z. FI. (1864) 325; Benth. 
Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 599; Buch. N.Z. Grasses (1879) t 13s ; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 859. Agrostis ovata Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) n. 40; 
A. Rich. Fl. Nowv. Zel. (1832) 128: A. Gunn. Precur. (1836) 247; Raoul 
Chorx (1846) 39. Cinna ovata Kunth Rev. Gram. i (1829) 208. Hystericipa ¢, yes 2 
alopecuroides Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram. (185§) 35. & Cin. Moe 
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