Fl. Austral. vii. 574; Buch. N.Z. Grasses, t. 15. D. Hookeriana and D. Forsteriana, Trin. and Rupr. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Sèr. vi. 5 (1842), 3, 4. Agrostis crinita, R. Br. Prodr. 170; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 136; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 246; Raoul, Choix, 39. Anthoxanthum crinitum, Forst. Prodr. n. 18.
Var. intermedia, Hack. MSS.—Rather more slender; panicle narrower and laxer. A passage form into D. sciurea.
North and South Islands, Stewart Island, Chatham Islands: Plentiful in dry open situations throughout. Sea-level to 3000 ft. Also abundant in Australia and Tasmania.
2. D. sciurea, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 294.—Smaller than D. crinita and more slender. Culms tufted, 1–2 ft. high, slender, quite glabrous. Leaves chiefly at the base of the culms and much shorter than them, narrow, flat or convolute, sometimes almost setaceous, glabrous or the lower ones pubescent; sheaths smooth; ligules short, broad. Panicle 3–6 in. long, much more lax and open than in D. crinita; branches slender, capillary, scabrid. Spikelets ¼ in. long, rarely more. Two outer glumes equal or nearly so, long-acuminate, margins hyaline, keel smooth or scabrid; 3rd or flowering glume nearly as long, convolute, smooth or slightly scabrous, entire or 2-fid at the tip; awn ½–¾ in. long, flexuous, usually but not invariably twisted at the base, inserted on the back of the glume close to the tip. Palea narrow-linear, 2-fid.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 326; Fl. Tasm. ii. 111, t. 158a; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 574; Buch. N.Z. Grasses, t. xvi. (in part). D. Sieberiana, Trin. and Rupr. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Sèr. vi. 5 (1842) 2. D. montana, Endl. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Norf. 24. Agrostis sciurea, R. Br. Prodr. 171. Stipa micrantha, Cav. Ic. v. 42; F. Muell. in Journ. Bot. (1878) 327 (not of Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 566).
Var. inæquiglumis, Hack. MSS.—Panicle with longer flaccid branches; spikelets more laxly arranged. Two outer glumes unequal, acute but not cuspidate, keel sharply scabrid; awn of flowering glume almost apical, not twisted at the base.
North Island: From the North Cape to Wellington; not so plentiful as D. crinita. South Island: Has been recorded from Marlborough (Buchanan), Canterbury (Armstrong), and Greymouth (Kirk), but I have seen no specimens.
Also in Australia, Tasmania, and Norfolk Island.
20. DESCHAMPSIA, Beauv.
Perennial grasses. Leaves narrow, flat or convolute. Spikelets rather small, 2-flowered, arranged in lax or contracted panicles; rhachilla disarticulating above the 2 outer glumes, produced between the flowering glumes and above the upper flower as a naked or hairy bristle, rarely ending in an imperfect flower. Glumes 4; 2 outer slightly unequal, persistent, empty, keeled, acute, membranous, shining; 3rd and 4th (or flowering glumes) membranous or
