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tawny, papery; blades flat or folded, shorter than the culms; panicle 



Figure 239.— Poa involuta. Plant, X 1; floret, X 10. (Swallen 1110, Tex.) 



oblong, dense and spikelike or somewhat interrupted below, 2 to 6 cm 



long; spikelets 6 to 8 mm long; glumes 

 broad, acute; lemmas 3 to 4 min long, gla- 

 brous except for a few short hairs on the 

 nerves below. % (P. pachypholis Piper.) 



Figure 241.— Distribution of 

 Poa cmickii. 



— Cliffs, bluffs, and rocky meadows near 

 the seashore, Washington (Ilwaco); Cali- 

 figure m-Poa cutickii. Panicle, x fornia (Humboldt Bay to Monterey). 



l; floret, X 10. (Howell 183, Oreg.) g2 p 0a epiHs Sdibn. SKYLINE BLUE- 



GRASS. (Fig. 243.) Culms erect from a rather loose base, solitary or 



