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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880. Excerpt:... amount of permanent pasture. Distribution In New Zealand: FOUND EVERYWHERE BETWEEN SEA LEVEL, AND 5000 FEET ALTITUDE. Reference to Plate XLIV., B.: Fig. 1. Plant. 2. Spikelet. 3. Floret. 4, 4'. Nervation of empty glumes. 5. Nervation of flowering glume. 6. Nervation of Palea. 7. Scale. 8, 8'. Grain, front and side view. Genus, Poa: Sub-Order, Festitcacctz. 3.--POA ANCEPS, Var. c, Breviculmis. HARD SHORT STEMMED POA. (Plate, XL V., C.) Poa Anceps, Forst. var. c, breviculmis, Hook. fil., N.Z. Fl., I., 306. Poa Anceps, Forst. var. c, breviculmis, Hook. fil., Handb. N.Z., I.,, 339 A Small prostrate branching grass, branches ascending, found from sea level to 3000 feet altitude. Perennial. Culms 4--6 inches high, prostrate at the base. Leaves 2--4 inches long, curving, distichous, smooth. Panicle 1-- inches long, ovate, contracted, smooth. Spikelets small, short, broad, 2--4 flowered. Empty glumes 3-nerved. Flowering glume 5-nerved, scabridus, and with long tufts of long flocculent silky hair at base. Palea bifid, 2-nerved. Scales oblique, acute. Anthers long. Distribution Of Var. C, Breviculmis: NEW ZEALAND. This variety of Poa anceps is most prevalent on poor dry soil, being often abundant on dry gravel terraces, when under such circumstances, it is of a harsh nature, and refused by stock when more succulent grasses are present. This harshness of foliage, however, in many grasses, is not a proof of the absence of nutrient properties, as many such are fattening, and if cut down are readily eaten. The selection of pasture best adapted for aged sheep is of much importance, as they would be certain to fall off in condition where grasses, such as the present species are abundant, from sheer inability to graze them. Distribution re New Zealand: NOT UNCOMMON IN THE...