Festuca. | GRAMINEAE. 207 
smooth and glabrous, involute, setaceous, acute ; sheaths long, fissured to 
the base, not striate; ligules short, glabrous. Panicle 14-2}in. long, 
ovate-lanceolate, usually rather dense and compact ; rhachis and branches 
glabrous and angled ; branches solitary or the lower binate ; divisions few, 
glabrous. Spikelets ovate-lanceolate, }-4in. long, shortly pedicelled or 
almost sessile, 4—8-flowered. Two outer glumes unequal ; lower lanceolate, 
acuminate, l-nerved ; upper larger, ovate-lanceolate, 3-nerved. Flowering 
glumes rounded on the back, oblong-lanceolate, acute, faintly 5-nerved. 
Awn variable, sometimes short and almost wanting, at other times well 
developed. Palea as long as the flowering glume, linear-oblong, the keels 
smooth. A 7a =: so AS 
el (=D 
9 - 2 +) 
Norra Istanp: Shores of Port Nicholson, and rocky slopes of Cook Strait, 7’. Kirk ! 
B. C. Aston! D. Petrie! T. F. C. Soutn Isuanp: Awatere Valley and Banks 
Peninsula, Cockayne / 
6. F. erecta D’Urv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, iv (1826) 601.—Perennial, 
densely tufted, 8-12in. high. Culms strict, erect, 2-noded or rarely 3- 
noded, the lowest node near the base, quite smooth and glabrous. Leaves 
usually overtopping the culms, narrow, strict, erect, quite glabrous ; 
sheaths rather lax, much broader than the blades, 4-3 in. diam., pale, thin 
and membranous, striate; blades narrow, ;;—;5 in. across, complicate and 
appearing almost terete, quite smooth, faintly 10—12-ribbed on the out- 
side, the ribs much more prominent on the inner face, which is usually 
furnished with short stiff hairs; apex of leaf rigid and pungent. Panicle 
contracted, narrow, erect, 24-4in. long; rhachis angular, finely scabnd 
r : Loawehoo uenally solitary, or the lower a little remote ; 
| a *  awns, 
from 
upper 
+ back, 
a short 
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. Vasel. 
Festuca 
Ai 1. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) DLS SOL Ur te rire worry 
MacquaRI£ Istanp: Rocks near the sea, not uncommon, Dr, Scott! A. Hamilton / 
H. Hamilton / See Chetote,. Ttmnr SQ IN LO = I} 
Also found in Fuegia, Falkland Islands, and Kerguelen. But for its absence from 
the New Zealand Subantarctic iSlands it might be included in the “ circumpolar species ”’ 
that are found throughout the ring or zone of widely separated islands that girdle the 
Antarctic seas within the parallels of 45° 8. to 60°S. I am indebted to Dr. Stapf, of the 
Kew Herbarium, for comparing some of Mr. Hamilton’s specimens with Fuegian 
examples, and for informing me that they quite correspond. 
( theres 
7. F. Coxii, Hack. in Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 919.—Rhizome 
stout, creeping. Culms densely tufted, branched at the base, erect or 
slightly geniculate, slender, smooth, leafy, 6-18in. high. Leaves numerous, 
longer than the culms, slender, soft, pliant, the margins so much involute 
that the leaf is terete, smooth on the back, midrib prominent on the inner 
face; sheaths rather lax, thin, smooth, striate, open to the base ; ligules 
very short, truncate, cilolate at the tip. =Panicle 2-3in. long, narrow, 
rather dense, often reduced to a simple raceme or spike, or with 2—3-spicu- 
late branches in the lower part; rhachis stout, angled, scabrid ; branches 
or pedicels very short, stout, scabrid, the upper spikelets nearly sessile. 
