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The Natural History of British Grasses. 



Poa pratensis. 



find three stamens, with but very few exceptions, to each floret, 

 and hence grasses belong to the Linnsean class Triandria. 



The Pistil (K) consists of a style, which is in one or as it 

 were split into two parts, each surmounted by a stigma (K^ 

 either pointed or feathery ; they are mostly very pale in colour, 



