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Family Gramineae.
°(1)Zoysia pungens Willd. [J. B. A.]
Recorded by Cheeseman (Manual, p. 844). I have seen it growing at Gore Bay, and have also seen specimens from New Brighton, and consider that it probably still occurs on the peninsula.
Microlaena avenacea Hook. f. [R.; J. B. A.; L. C.]
Abundant on the forest-floor. (Akaroa is the habitat of the type.)
Microlaena polynoda Hook. f. [J. F. A.; J. B. A.; L. C.]
Rare. Redcliffs, Caton's Bay, in scrub; bush beyond Kennedy's: A. W.
Hierochloe redolens R. Br. [J. F. A.; J. B. A.]
Common; usually above 800 ft.
*Stipa arundinacea Benth. [J. F. A.; J. B. A.]
Pigeon Bay; Long Bay (near Peraki): R. M. L. Akaroa: Lyall; Kirk.
Stipa setacea R. Br.
Sumner; Heathcote Valley; Cashmere Hills. Probably a recent introduction.
Echinopogon ovatus Beauv. [J. B. A.]
Apparently not common. Lyttelton Hills: A. W. Caton's Bay; Island Bay: R. M. L.
J. B. A. records (1)Agrostis canina and (1)A. quadriseta. These should certainly be looked for.
*Deyeuxia filiformis Petrie. [J. B. A.]
Kaituna; Mount Fitzgerald; Stony Bay.
*°Deyeuxia filiformis Petrie var. pilosa Cheesem.
Banks Peninsula: T. Kirk.
Dichelachne crinita Hook. f. [J. B. A.; L. C.]
Common on rock-faces and drier hillsides
Deschampsia caespitosa Beauv. [J. F. A.; J. B. A.]
Akaroa: Raoul. Tops of ridges, Lyttelton Hills: R. M. L. And probably elsewhere.
°Trisetum antarcticum Trin. [J. B. A.]
Lytteelton Hills: Cockayne.
*Danthonia Cunninghamii Hook. f.
Mount Herbert and Mount Sinclair, 2,500 ft. Apparently not hitherto recorded.
Danthonia Raoulii Steud.
Akaroa (the habitat of the type); Mount Sinclair, above 1,000 ft.; Cooper's Knobs.
I treated this previously as D. flavescens (Trans., vol. 46, p. 58), but as the plant differs somewhat from the form as found elsewhere, and as it is undoubtedly the D. rigida of Raoul, it is the type of D. Raoulii and may be called var. rigida.
Danthonia semiannularis R. Br. [R.; J. B. A.; L. C.]
Common in the tussock meadows, and probably increasing in quantity.
Danthonia pilosa R. Br. [L. C.]
Abundant, and increasing (see introduction, p. 363).
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Arundo conspicua Forst. f. [J. F. A.; J. B. A.; L. C.]
Common in gullies with flax.
Poa caespitosa, Forst. f. [J. B. A.; L. C.]
The chief tussock of the hillside, but slowly disappearing owing to fires and cultivation.
Poa Colensoi Hook. f. [J. B. A.; L. C.]
Commoner towards the hilltops, and apparently a disappearing species.
Poa imbecilla Forst. f. var. Matthewsii Hack. [J. B. A.; L. C.]
Common in damper and shadier ground near the hilltops.
J. B. A. includes also (2)P. breviglumis, (2) P. foliosa, (2)P. anceps, (2)P. Lindsayi, and (2)P. scoparia. Two of these are plants of the subantarctic islands.
Atropis stricta Hack. var. suborbicularis Hack.
Salt meadows, Teddington (det. Petrie). Apparently not hitherto recorded.
Festuca novae-zealandiae Cockayne. [J. B. A.; L c.]
Not uncommon in the tussock pastures.
°Festuca multinodis Petrie.
Lyttelton Hills: Cockayne.
*Festuca littoralis Labill. [J. B. A.]
Peninsula, near shore.
Agropyron scabrum Beav. var. [L. C.]
Lyttelton Hills; not common. Island Bay: R. M. L. A migrant tussock.
*Agropyron multiflorum T. Kirk.
Akaroa: T. Kirk. (Specimen in the Canterbury Museum.)
*°Asperella gracilis T. Kirk. [J. B. A.]
Akaroa: Raoul.