Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . n my possession, I shall not now attempt anypartial description of it. Art. LII.—Description of a new Species of Ehrharta. By D. Petrie, Plate X. [Read before the Otago Institute, 10th February, 1880.] Ehrharta thomsoni, A SHORT tufted grass; culm flattened, branched, 2-5 inches long. Leavesdistichous, glabrous, flat or concave, about |- inch long, deeply and closelygrooved ; sheaths imbricating, broad, pale, ligule none. Panicle contracted, erect, of 2-4 spikelets, on short slender glumes, four ; lower pair short, broad
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . n my possession, I shall not now attempt anypartial description of it. Art. LII.—Description of a new Species of Ehrharta. By D. Petrie, Plate X. [Read before the Otago Institute, 10th February, 1880.] Ehrharta thomsoni, A SHORT tufted grass; culm flattened, branched, 2-5 inches long. Leavesdistichous, glabrous, flat or concave, about |- inch long, deeply and closelygrooved ; sheaths imbricating, broad, pale, ligule none. Panicle contracted, erect, of 2-4 spikelets, on short slender glumes, four ; lower pair short, broad, obtuse, nearly equal; upperpair thrice the length of the lower, lanceolate, laterally compressed, nearlyequal, silky at the base, 3-5-nerved, the nerves coalescing to form an acuteawn-like tip, scabrid on the keel. Flowering glume shorter, three-nerved,bluntly and shortly acuminate. Palea linear rather coriaceous. Scaleslarge, broadly acute, entire. Grain enclosed in the flowering and styles not seen. TRANS^ 8 6 6^ EMffHARTA THOMSOiW, Peine. ei lii/ Gillies.—On the Growth of Tires on Scoria Soil. 357 Habitat.—Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, on wet open ground, rangingfrom 100 to 1500 feet in elevation. Named in honour of G. M. Thomson,Esq., of the Dunedin High School, who discovered it along with only other New Zealand species of Ehrharta is an alpine plant from theTararua Eange, Wellington. This grass possesses, I should say, noeconomic value. DESCKIPTION OF PLATE X. Fig. 1. Ehrharta thomsoni, Petrie. Nat. size. 2. Spikelet. 3. Upper pair of empty glumes and floret. 4. Floret. 5,5 Nervation of lower pair of empty ,6 „ upper „ „ 7. ,, flowering glume. 8. „ ,9 Scales. 10. Grain. Art. Lin.—Xntes on the Growth of certain Trees on Scoria Soil near MountEden, Auckland. By T. B. Gillies, a Judge of the Supreme Courtof New Zealand. [Read before the Auckland Institute, SOth June, 1879.]In aut
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