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Fig. 273. Poa pratensis L. Kentucky Blue-grass.— A slen- 

 der, erect, stoloniferons perennial 3 to 9 dm. liigh, with narrow, flat 

 leaves and more or less spreading, usually pyramidal panicles. — 

 Fields and meadows throughout the United States and British 

 America, abundantly naturalized in the East, indigenous in the 

 North and West. [Europe and Asia.] Summer. A valuaV)le 

 pasture grass. 



