Gea. IV. SPINIPBX, L
aeuter. P a U x i n . l J a Z l Z e T . ’ T “ *»V-- « » ¿ » /-W J v.
amplectens. S gm n a lx 2 can,osæ ' ( ' ® ®“P™ am linarvem
™ L « . „ J f r u Z l l T I T “ T -bcohmrentes. Car,cp,k in to paleas libera.-Qramina
p r o d u e t k , f c m i n e . s / n t o „ ( » t f r , y j : : n » : ; « Z r ;™ &
..and. m i l b T n c w “ ' 4 t e ™ f c r d ° i r r i ‘‘7 ? ' *" -
makecl, snbnlate ra ch is; herma p h -o d ite ( a . d í T Z d T ’ ’" ‘f i ' ' “ ’ “‘ “ “ “ ‘" S ’
G l,m e , t o o , membranons, nearly equal P a U x o f tl T 7 ° ” too-aorecrecl.
npper rvith t o o ciliated t e d s . A . d r o „ . „ , " " S ’
( r a r d , one) membranons palea ; npper f lo w r L m a n h l t o ° " ‘
induding the npper. whieb is two-nerved, Seale, two iiesbv' " Z P«!»». ‘bn lower
from ,p l,a ., i„ dlnsion to the spinons r.ehi, of the male s Í L t o ” " “ “ “
l n f o r i t o l ^ " ; : : : “ r í ^ : " , t ó r i f “: f t “ ■ ^erleeo.tome„tosls v.
19S; « . F z e a l . 1. 292. ( 7 1 58L) * • * « * ’■
H ab. Sandy shores on both the north and south coasts - h v )
D is t iu b . Extratropical Australia ; New Zealand
. n d 7 7 ^ 7 : ~ : k 7 i r n i r ; s 7 : r T ‘7 7 : r " ‘ 7 ’ ‘ ' ”
upper, as well as th e back o t the le a f coveted with shan-w ’ ot’ I o” ”»“ «nd shining,
peduncled, silky, 1 inch lon g eolleeted i l !, 7 a’’ ^ “ * ™ ° “ ’
p h ro d ite ( a a d r o g y a ,,,) ,p ¡ té , a n m a o ? , ' T ” T i the flowers. £ « , » .
spines, 4 - f l i „ e h l l „ „ ; 1 . 3 i 7 l r : " 7 l ° ““ ‘'V ”‘“ ,“ ” ™ “ ‘".S the fertile flowers are to be found. le d io n s ; each o t these ,s a pednncle or rachis, at whose base only
Gen. V. ANTHISTIEIA, L
m a s c i i : t a ^ ¡ : " i i l : i 7 t 7 z : 7 7 .777 ‘ ^
(fasoicnlo centralis) sessilis, hermapbrodita O ln m a '^ T -“ ” “" “ ‘=01 mtermeilie,
membranaeemi »oscubs h e rL .p h ro d S 2 n e u l ma ' I “” ” ” ™
diti aristate. Squanulx 2 . Stamina S .-le ram iu a p l e r u Z T T l I T J l f i T " ' ' ' "
awned bract ot spathe. P o „ a n te , , p H a a , cachVra t” ” I ? ’ T Í == ■“ S '
placed on a bearded pedicel, of one or two aw n le s s t s l l 1 , '.hid, are
flower that has only one palea. O t the three cenlr I fl ‘T * neuter o t male
awned glames. mate, a n d ^ o n ta in a u n V a l : . “ : : : ! I r . l ‘™w‘f
g lumes, and un i- or bi-paleale, hermaphrodite flowers ’ P 1 T “
With a lon g , strong, hent awn, Ü 7 7 , n i t o l7r 1 r i e t .717
É
I . A n th i s ti r ia a u s t r a l is (Br. Prodr. p. 20 0 ); culmis teretibus vaginisque glaberrimis, foliis glabris
scaberuhsve, glumis spathisque imberbibus.—.4« var. A. ciliatæ? {Gunn., 591.) (Tab. CLVI.)
I I ab. Abundant throughout the Island.— (Fl. Oct.-Dec.) {v. v.) Colonial name, “ Kangaroo Grass.”
D i s t iu b . Throughout Australia (India, Abyssinia, and South Africa .î*).
A taO, glabrous, smooth Grass, 1-3 feet XiigM— adms leafy. Leaves smooth or scabrid. Ligula membranous.
Spathes 2 inches long, witb long, straight points. Glumes of outer spikelets acuminate, 4 inch long. Pedicel of
central spikelets with a whorl of brown bairs at tbe top ; two lateral male spikelets with subulate, almost awned
glumes. Outer glume of central spikelet witb a rigid, brown, flexuose, bent, strong awn, 14-2 inches long,—This
appears probably to be a glabrous state of the widcly-difluscd A. ciliata.— CLVI. Fig. 1, fascicle of spikelets
in bract ; 2, lower spikelet ; 3. lateral of the three central spikelets ; 4, central hermaphrodite spikelet ; 5, hermaphrodite
flower ; 6, squamulæ, stamens, and ovary ;—all magnified.
Gen. VI. HEMARTHEIA, Br.
^ Sgnca compressa, semiarticnlata. Spiculæ quovis articulo utræque fertiles, binatæ; altera (inferior)
sessilis, per glumam superiorem rachi agglutiuata ; altera (superior) pedicellata, pediceUo cum rachi arete
connato, glumis liberis. Flores hyalini, mutici ; inferior unipaleaceus, neuter ; superior bipaleaceus, herma-
phroditus. Squamulæ 2, truncate, glabræ.—Gramina ramosa; foliis planis; ramulis monostachyis, subfasciculatis
V. simplicibus.
A very cirioos genus ot Grasses, natives ot Sonthein Europe, Australia, India, South Africa, and North America,
belongmg to a sectron of the Natural Order that has usually a jointed rachis to the spike, which is however
hardly the case in Rmarthria.—I.presee.ce spiked. Spitelet, too together, the lower sessUe, the upper apparently
so also, but seated ou a flat pedicel, wlueli is attached throughout its whole length to the rachis of the spike.
Glume, too, the inner (upper) one of the lower spikelet attached by its back to the rachis ot the spike; glumes of
the upper spikelet both tree. Flower, included, two in each pair of glumes ; the lower ot one palea, neuter ; upper
ot two paleæ, hermaphrodite. Seofa too, truucate. Stamen, 3. (Name from i»//, aud apSpos, o in
allusion to the structure of the spike.)
L H em a r th r i a u n c in a ta (Br. Prodr. p. 207); rigida, culmis strictis foliosis subcompressis gla-
bernmis, foliis subbifams patulis brevibus basi vaginisque parce ciliatis, spica angusta elongata erecta,
gluma superiore apice hamata. {Gunn, 417.)
H a b . Coasts of the northern parts of the Island, Gunn.— (Y\. Dec.)
D is t iu b . Australia.
This is, I believe, u littoral Grass, forming dense tufts.— C.liaa creeping, very bard and tough, leafy below
3 molies to a toot high, qmte smooth and glabrous, compressed, often curving. Leare, distichous, coriaceous,
smooth except at the base, where the margms, us also of the sheaths, are ciliated; Made f -6 inches long. Spike
H -4 mches long, narrow, slender. Spikelet, closely pressed to the rachis, hardiy imbrdoated, green or purplish, A
mob long. Outer glume, flattisb, nciwed, aenminate, cuspidate ; inner keeled, with au acuminate point, leiminali’nv
in a sharply reflexed point. Palea membrauous. °
Geu. VII. HIEEOCHLOE, Gmel.
SpicUx 3-florie;>riiMlateraHbiis masculis, intermedio lierm.aplirodilo, Olumx 2, carinatæ, snb-
æquales. Palex 2, ranticæ v. inferior aristata, c.irinata; arieh, lerminaU v. dorsali, recta v. incurva brevi
Sgnamulx 2, bilobæ. H . J . Slamima 3. Fl. $ . Stamina 2. Caryopei, libera, paleis obteeta— Gramina
odora; io\naplanis v. involutis; sincnMs panicitlaiis, nitidis, majusculis.