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Fig. 561. Poa glumaria Triu. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. (VI) 

 1:379. 1831. Large-floweked Blue-grass. — A stout, erect, 

 smootli perennial 3 to 9 dm. high, from strong, creeping root- 

 stocks, with thick, flat leaves, closely flowered, contracted pani- 

 cles 8 to 16 cm. long. Spikelets 3- to 5-flowered, 8 to 12 mm. long ; 

 with nearly equal, acute, firm, empty glumes (a), and broadly- 

 ovate flowering glumes which are 4 to 5 mm. long and pubescent 

 on the margins and keel below, not webbed. — Nova Scotia, Que- 

 bec, and westward to Alaska. May-September. 



