that the botanists are at variance as to
whether they are indigenous to Australia or not; the <i>Couch
Grass</i>, for instance (<i>Cynodon dactylon</i>, Pers.), or
<i>Indian Doub Grass</i>, is generally considered to be an
introduced grass, yet Maiden regards it as indigenous.

There remain, "from the vast assemblage of our grasses, even
some hundred indigenous to Australia" (von Muller), and a like
number indigenous to New Zealand, the greater proportion of
which are endemic. Many of these, accurately named in Latin
and described by the botanists, have not yet found their
vernacular equivalents; for the bushman and the settler do not
draw fine botanical distinctions. Maiden has classified and
fully described 158 species as "Forage Plants," of which over
ninety have never been christened in English. Mr. John
Buchanan, the botanist and draughtsman to the Geographical
Survey of New Zealand, has prepared for his Government a
`Manual of the Indigenous Grasses of New Zealand,' which
enumerates eighty species, many of them unnamed in English, and
many of them common also to Australia and Tasmania. These two
descriptive works, with the assistance of Guilfoyle's Botany
and Travellers' notes, have been made the basis of the
following list of all the common Australian names applied to
the true <i>Grasses</i> of the <i>N.O. Gramineae</i>. Some of
them of very special Australian character appear also elsewhere
in the Dictionary in their alphabetical places, while a few
other plants, which are grasses by name and not by nature,
stand in such alphabetical place alone, and not in this list.
For facility of comparison and reference the range and habitat
of each species is indicated in brackets after its name; the
more minute limitation of such ranges is not within the scope
of this work. The species of <i>Grass</i> present in
Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand are--

1. Alpine Rice Grass--
<i>Ehrharta colensoi</i>, Cook. (N.Z.)

2. Alpine Whorl G.--
<i>Catabrosa antarctica</i>, Hook. f. (N.Z.)

3. Bamboo G.--
<i>Glyceria ramigera</i>, F. v. M. (A.)
Called also <i>Cane Grass</i>.
<i>Stipa verticillata</i>, Nees.(A.)

4. Barcoo G. (of Queensland)--
<i>Anthistiria membranacea</i>, Lindl. (A.)
Called also <i>Landsborough Grass</i>.

5. Barnyard G.--
<i>Panicum crus-galli</i>, Linn. (A., not endemic.)
Called also <i>Cockspur Grass</i>.

6. Bayonet G.--
<i>Aciphylla colensoi</i>.(N.Z.)
Called also