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membranous. Panicle lax, strict, erect, glabrous, 4-8in. long; rhachis 
smooth ; branches whorled, capillary, each with 2-5 spikelets; pedicels 
minutely scaberulous. Spikelets 4in. long without the awn, pale whitish- 
green. Two outer glumes almost equal, lanceolate, acuminate, very thin 
and membranous, almost hyaline, glabrous; 3rd or flowering glume much 
shorter, rigid, convolute, brownish, densely villous, entire at the tip; 
awn very slender, glabrous, 1-l4in. long. Palea linear, silky, 2-nerved. 
‘ Stamens 3.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii (1860) 110, t. 1578; Benth. Fl. Austral. 
vu (1878) 568; ZL. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv (1882) 386; Petrie in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix (1887) 326; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 858. 
_ d. Petriei, Buch. N.Z. Grasses (1879) t. 17, ii. 
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SoutH Istanp: Otago—Cromwell, Kurow, Duntroon, and other localities in the 
interior of Otago, Petrie / 500-1500 ft. 
' A common Australian plant, stretching from Queensland to Tasmania. It is 
probably naturalized in New Zealand. 
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The genus is confined to the following species, which has a wide range in Australia 
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1, E. ovatus , Bean. 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 hoth surfaces harsh and scabrid ; sheaths rather long, closely appressed, 
deeply striate, scabrid with reversed projections ; hgule short, mem- 
branous, lacerate. Spike-like panicle varying in size from 1-11 in. long. 
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A. ue 0 Noe. Zel. (1832) 128 ; A. Cunn. Precur, (1836) 247; Raoul ‘ 
ova (18: . Cinna ovata Kunth Rev. Gram. i (1829) 208... Hystericiva ‘ 
alopecuroides Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram. (185§) 35. asthe OLA: ete ' “4, 
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