Poa, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 331. 
POMMEREULLA. Schreb. gen. N. 97. 
Calyx, glumes two-valved, from three to four-flowered ; 
valvelets four-cleft, awned on the back. 
P. Corucopiae, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 314. Vahl. en. 
pl. ii. 393. R. Corom, pl. ii. M. 131. 
A very singular, small, rare grass’; growing under bushes 
on dry uncultivated ground. 
Root, culms, and leaves, as described by Konig, but mine 
has the spike compound and secund, the rest as he says, alba 
base abyolluta folia sub-spatheformi. Spicu/is distichus, 
each having an involucre of two, lanceolate, acute, membra- 
naceous valves. Within these two valves, is a short, clubbed, 
downy pedicel supporting the partial spikelets of four flow- 
ers, with their common calyx, it is joined to the involucre by 
an articulation and drops off most readily, particularly when _ 
dry, leaving the involucre attached to the rachis, Calyx, 
corol, and stamens, are as Konig describes them; but the 
germ is obcordate, and there are always two styles with fea- 
thery recurved stigmas. Seed as he describes it. 
POA. Schreb. gen. N. 414. 
Calyx two-valved, containing many flowers of two unequal 
valvelets disposed alternately on distichous spikelets. 
1. P. bifaria, Vahl, symbol, ii, 19. Linn, sp. ie ed, — 
i, 401. be 
~ Smooth, Cuties stinight; from one to two feet high. pikes 
terminal, straight, secund. Spikelets sessile, alternate, bifari- 
ous, mia aneatior cd four to eigen ane a eae 
ed. HG: 
- Teling. Wodde-talin, : 
I believe Konig called it Poa sabe: 
' Grows on mountains and other dry situations, 
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