villoso-barbata apice subacuta, foliis arete involutis plerumque longissime lnieari-filiformibus rigidis gradatim
attenuatis, culmis erectis fasciculatis superne gracilibus nudis.
Var. β, minor, foliis culmo subsequilongis.
Hab. Lord Auckland's group and Campbell's Island; abundant, especially in rocky places near the sea : β. Campbell's Island, on ledges of rock, alt. 1000 feet.
Gramen elatum, 2-3 pedale, suberectum, cæspites magnos densos pra?sertim inter rupes efficiens. Radix fibrosa, fibris intertextis, crassis, diametr. penna? corvinee, elongatis, 1-2 uncialibus, tortis, ramosis, suberosis v. spongiosis, pallide fuscis, fibrillosis v. interdum subtomentosis. C'ulmi plurimi, dense fascicidati, copiose foliosi, basi una cum vaginis foliorum 4r unc. diametri, ima basi divisi, e parte infinia prostata, ramosa, lignosa, aseendentes, gracdes, 1-2 pedales, glabenimi, vix striati, bis terve nodosi ; internodiis 2-3 uncialibus ; nodis eonstrietis, flavo-fuscis. Folia longissima, anguste lineari-filifonnia, gradatim attenuata, subflexuosa, cubmun bis terve superantia, basi longe va- ginantia, per totam longitudinem arete involuta, glaberrima, striata, subrigide coriacea, vaginis angustiora, in var. /3, folia stricta, rigida, culmo breviora. Vagina? bneares, elongata?, 8-10 imc. longa?, ad basin latiorem fissa?, superne hiantes, pallide straminea?, Ireves, nitida? ; ad orem utrinque in auriculas breves sursum productae ; ligula horizon- tali, angusta, inconspicua. Panicula 3-5 unc. longa, suberecta v. paulo inclinata, parce ramosa, pauciflora ; rachi gracili, scabrida; ramis alternis, angulatis, scabridis, 3-5-floris. Spicule pedicellata?, valde compressa?, ovato-ob- longa?, sub 4 lin. longa?, 1-flora?. Glumaruni valvce coriacea?, suba?cpiales, flosculis breviores, lanceolata?, acuta?,' concava?, dorso nervisque scabriebs, inferiore paido minore. FloscitU dissiti, inferior subsessilis, reliqui pecbcellati, pedicello nisi ad basin flosculi nudo. Paha inferior lineari-oblonga, subacuta, dorso convexa, basi longe villoso- barbata, extus parce pilosa, quinquencrvis, nervis prominentibus, extus scabridis. Palm superior i brevior, apice bifida, bicarinata, carinis scabrido-ciliatis. Squamults obovato-oblonga?, ad medium bipartita?; segmentis ina?qua- bbus, ovato-subulatis, acuminatis. Stamina 3 ; flamentis breviusculis ; antheris paulo exsertis, stramineis. Ovarium minutum, late obovatum ; stylis basi discretis. Caryopsis glabra, palea brevior, obovata, apice gibbosa, latere unico excavata, stylis lateralibus. This plant is most nearly aUied to Festitca ? littoralis, Br. (Prodi - ., p. 178), from which it differs, according to our specimens from various parts of New Holland, Tasmania, and New Zealand, in the longer leaves, fewer flowered panicle, narrower florets, in the entire absence of any toothing at the apex of the lower palea, and in the long villous beard at its base. That plant also has turgid distichous approximated florets, resembbng those of a Uniola. I have referred this species to Festitca, as Mr. Brown has the F. littoralis, though with a mark of doubt ; they are mani- festly congeneric, but in this I see no approach to the character of Danthonia ; they further bear a good deal of re- semblance to the F. spadicea, L., a South of Eiuope plant. Of M. Labillardiere's F. littoralis we have an authentically named specimen, gathered by that voyager himself, and received from our liberal correspondent Mr. Webb of Paris ; it entfrely resembles the figure given in ' Planta? Nov. Holl.' (t. 27), especially in the branching and elongated lower portion of the culm, but the pedicels of the florets are decidedly hairy and the lower palea truncated, characters not portrayed in the plate alluded to, but which Mr. Brown has observed in bis plant. This species Nees v. Esenbeck notices in his ' Gramma Nova? Hollandiae,' (vid. Lond. Journ. of Bot., vol. ii. p. 119), as " Schcdonorus Billardierianus, N. ab E., Poa littoralis, Lab. nee P. Br.," and further quotes Mr. Gunn's specimens, which agree with Labillardiere's own and with Mr. Brown's description. Kunth (Agrost., p. 409), unites these two plants, retaining them under a section of Festitca, which includes his " species anomala?, minus cognita? et dubia?." Sprengel refers it to Triodia, and Trinius in his beau- tiful work places it in Arimdo ! (A. triodioides, Trim Species Gramin. vol. iii.) 2. ~FESTUCAfoliosa, Hook. fil. ; panicula inclinata majuscula coarctata ramosa multiflora, ramis erectis compositis, spiculis sub 4-floris late ovatis, glumaruni valvis lauceolatis v. acuminatis sequalibus, flosculis
