57. URAMTXEJ-:. 



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keel. 2 -toothed, very shortly 

 awned. 



Pasture and orchards, 

 chii'lly in the hills. — Nov.- 

 Dec. — Europe; temperate 

 Asia. 



31. PoA. L. 



(Greek poa, grass.) 



1. Poa annua, L. An- 



nual Mrniloir-iirdsii. Glabron*^ 

 annual, with weak a.scendin<j; 

 stems: leave.s bright-green. 

 soft, flat ; ligule lanceolate ; 

 panicle <)\al, loose, the slen- 

 der .spreading branches naked 



Poa annua. 



Dactylis glomerata. 



towards the base: spikolets 

 compressed, oval-oblong, dis- 

 tant, usually 3-5-floweretI ; 

 outer glumes 2, unociiial, 

 acute, scarcel,v half the 

 length of the spikelet, the 

 lower 1-nerved, the upper 

 3-uerved ; flowering glume 

 keeled, with 5 conspicuous 

 nerves, .silky-ciliate towards 

 the bast\ 



Cultivated and waste places. 

 — June-Sept., and often flow- 

 ering at other times of the 

 year also. — Co.sniopolitan. 



