Poa, TRIANDRIA DIGYNTA, 339 
As found on dry elevated places. EP 
- Culms nearly erect, naked, except at the as from six'to 
twelve inches high, round, and smooth, . Leaves one or two 
near the base of each culm, short; mouths of the sheaths a 
little hairy.. Panicle oblong, bowing ; ramifications sub-ses- 
sile, short, filiform, simple, the lower collected into one or 
two remote branches; the upper ones alternate. Spikelets 
pedicelled, very long, linear, from fifty to seventy-flowered, 
i Calyx smooth, obtuse. Corol smooth, outer valve three-nerv- 
ed. Seed round, smooth, brown. 
17. P. unioloides. Linn, sp, pl. ed,.Willa. i. 393. Retz, 
Obs. v. 19. 
Erect, smooth, from-one to two feet high. “Panicle ovate; 
ramifications short, simple, below fascicled ; above solitary, 
horizontal ; spikelets long-pedicelled, from sixteen to’ i ai 
flowered. Seed oblong. 
+» Beng. Konee... - 
| A most elegant species, a native - ied dlevoted situations, 
. Culms, below ramous, with a small portion resting on the 
pains the rest erect, and from one to two feet high, round 
and smooth. Leaves few, small, and smooth ; mouths of the 
sheaths bearded. | -Panicles half as long as the whole plant, 
erect, oblong, thin ; ramifications peduncled, filiform, dispos- 
ed as in multiflora, Spikelets ovate, from sixteen to twenty- 
flowered, generally of a bluish purple colour. Corol, outer 
valve three-nerved, as in P, multiflora, Seed oblong, smooth, 
48 P. flexuosa, Ro . 
" Sub-erect, East, nodding ab tiee from a eigen’ to. 
twenty-four inches high. Panicle ovate, crowded 5 ramifi- 
ee ep AON insert oxhineea 
A prety large species, growing i in tufts on old wally 80 
