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I'iG. 544. Poa compressa Linu. Sp. I'l. (><). Canai>a Blttk- 

 GRASS. — A sloiulor but rather rigid aud somewhat wiry peren- 

 nial, with strongly llattened stems 1.5 to 5 dm. high, and usually 

 small, narrow, few-llowcred i)anicle8. Spikelets («) .3- to 5- (rarely 

 7- to (•-) flowered, 4 to 6 mm. long, with acute 3-nerved empty glumes 

 and ratlua- llrm, obscurely nerved flowering glumes 2 to 3 mm. 

 hmg, sparingly pubescent toward the base. — Dry meadows and 

 waste places, Newfoundland to .South Carolina, Tennessee aud 

 westward. [Europe.] May-Septemlni-. 



