See Fl. Awk, 194gue: te, A-omKh. 
Fi. wa. 1253: Wb.- A- paw. 
Bats oan 
154 GRAMINEAE. [ Agrostis. 
spikelets, scabrid, thickened at the tips. Two outer glumes subequal, 
lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate or almost hispid along the keel, sides scabe- 
rulous; 3rd or flowering glume 4} the length of the 2nd or rather shorter, 
membranous, glabrous, truncate at the apex and more or less evidently 
4-cuspidate, awn from half-way down the back, straight or flexuous or 
slightly recurved, usually longer than the spikelet. Palea very short, 
hardly exceeding the ovary, sometimes wanting.—Hook. f. Phil. Trans. 
Roy. Soc. (1879) 21; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. F 1. (1906) 862; Petrie in Sub- 
antarct. Is. ii (1909) 473. A. antarctica Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1 (1847) 374, 
t. 132: Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 327. A. multicaulis Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 
i (1844) 95. Ge fee Trans Dos 279 
SoutH IsLanpD: Otago—Head of Clinton Valley, near Lake Te Anau, Petrie! 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL Istanps: Sir J. D. Hooker, T. Kirk! Cockayne! W. R. 
Chambers! AwnvrpopEs Istanp: 7. Kirk. Macquarie Is~Lanp: Abundant, A. 
Hamilton, H. Hamilton. 
Also found in Chile, Fuegia, the Falkland Islands, Kerguelen Island, Marion and 
Heard Islands. Sir J. D. Hooker, in his memoir on the flora of Kerguelen Island (Phil. 
Trans. vol. clxviii) has reduced both A. antarctica and A. multicaulis to A. magellanica 
Lam. Professor Hackel concurs in this, remarking that A. antarctica only differs from 
the typical 4A. magellanica in the less-pointed outer glumes, and that A. multicaulis is 
only a dwarfed state, not separable as a distinct variety. 
9. A. muscosa 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii (1881) 385.—Minute, 
very densely tufted, forming small rounded cushion-like patches 1-2 in. 
diam., and less than lin. high. Culms densely packed, much branched 
at the base, leafy throughout. Leaves longer or shorter than the culms, 
pale glaucous-green ; blades spreading, flaccid, involute, almost capulary . 
sheaths shorter or longer than the blades, lax, whitish, membranous, 
grooved; ligules long, subulate. Panicle very short and dense, often 
concealed among the leaves, contracted into a close rounded head 4-4 in. 
diam., usually many-spiculate, but in depauperated states the spikelets 
may be reduced to 2-6, or in large states the panicle may be lengthened 
to 4-Lin.; branches short, sparsely hairy. Spikelets about 7m. long, 
pale-green. Two outer glumes subequal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, with a 
oreen scabrid keel and thin hyaline margins ; 3rd or flowering glume about 
1 shorter, ovate-oblong, truncate, 5-nerved, awn wanting, Palea wanting. 
Grain broadly oblong.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 863. A. Spencei 
T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxix (1897) 5389 (name only). A. aemula var. 
spathacea Berggr. in Minneskr. Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund. (1877) 82, t. 7, f. 41-47. 
Norts Istanp: Omatangi, Lake Taupo, S. Berggren! Mount Egmont, T. Ff. Git 
Waimarino Plateau and slopes of Tongariro, 7’. F. C. ; Lake Rotoaira, 7’. Kirk, T JOiGse3 
Mount Holdsworth, W. Townson! Kaimanawa and*Tararua Mountains, B. C. Aston! 
T. P. Arnold! Sourn Istanp: Nelson—Mount Owen, 7. F. C.; Tarndale, Cockayne 
and Foweraker. Marlborough—Awatere Valley, Cockayne. Canterbury—Broken River 
basin, J. D. Enys, T. Kirk, T. F.C. ; Mackenzie Plains, T. PF. C. Otago—Not uncommon 
in the eastern and southern portions of the province, Petrie! J. Kirk! Altitudinal ) 
rf a, ee weually, oe 208 to pth But Seeognding to sea-level in Southland. 
if 3. A. subulata Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1853) 95, t. 538.—Culms com- 
pactly tufted, slender, strict, erect, smooth, 1-2-noded, the nodes near the 
base of the culm, 2-9 in. high. Leaves crowded near the base of the culms 
and usually much shorter than them, very narrow, often filiform, strict, 
erect, involute, smooth and glabrous; sheaths long, grooved, glabrous ; 
ligules scarlous, narrow-oblong. Panicle very narrow, almost spike-like, 
4-2in. long, erect, purplish or pale-green; rhachis smooth or obscurely 
