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via, nervis marginalibus obsoletissimis, tribus medio utrinque proximis ex uno 
eodemque puncto egredientibus. 
Variat rarius glumis paleisque totis viridibus margineque albo-hyalino; 
e Br. minori, quam quodammodo simulat, facillime distinguitur ligula, radi- 
ce ctc. 
Gen. 45. Poa L. 
Panicula ramis semiverticillatis ramosa, sepius effusa. Spicule 
compresse, ovato-lanceolatz:, 2——multiflore, flosculis interdum lana 
crispula coherentibus, summis rarissime tabescentibus. G/wm«e ine- 
quales, acute, carinatz, inferior uninervia, superior paullo major triner- 
via. Palee inferiores carinate, acute, 5-nervicx, nervis parallelis dorsali 
et lateralibus sepius puberulis, virides v. violaceo-fulvo-variegate api- 
ce acuto marginibusque hyalins; pale: superiores bicarinate, ad fle- 
xure angulos tenuissime ciliat;», apice bifida.  Lodicule basi inflatze, 
subintegre. Germen glabrum; styli breves, terminales; stigmata plu- 
mosa. Caryopsis oblonga, trigona externe subcarinata, interne cana- 
liculata, apice glabra, libera. 
Linn. gen. n. 83. Endlich. gen. n. 876. Kunth enum. Ll. 110. Vees ab 
KEsenb. gen. 
Genus speciebus numerosis zona presertim temperata utriusque orbis in- 
colis ditissimum ab affinibus | Poezs differt spiculis. plano-compressis, paleis 
exterioribus glumisque herbaceis dorso: carinatis, in apicem acutum sepissime 
integrum productis. A estuceis distinguitur spiculis muticis glumis paleisque 
parallelo-nervosis. 
a. Stoloniferzc: rhizoma stolonibus longe lateque repens. Perennes. 
4. P. PRATENSIS (L. sp. 99), panicula aequali, diffusa; ramis plerumque 
quinis scabriusculis; spiculis ovato-lanceolatis, 3—ófloris; flosculis lana connexis; 
palea inferiori nervis 5 prominulis, carina et margine villosa; foliis planiusculis, 
apice contractis, ligula brevi truncata; vaginis culmoque subtereti glabris. 
Syn. L. su. n. 82; JPbg. su. n. 109. Hn. Fr. — Gunn, Fl. N. n. 456. — 
Horn. p. 107; Lange n. 155. — Kam. fenn. p. 2. — Kunth enum. 1 p. 
352. P. glabra Zhrh. calam. n. 62. 
Fig. Sw. Bot. 88. 1. Fl. D. 1444 (D. trivialis). Hezch. D. fl. fig. 413. — 
A17. — Tab. n. IV. n. A40. 
Exsicc. H. N. IX. 93 (varr). 
Hab. in pratis, locis aridis v. humidiusculis plus minus graminosis totius 
Scandinavie usque in regionem alpinam frequentissime. — In omni Europa vul- 
garis. 
Radix vhizomatis instar late repens, fibros numerosos complicatos et stolo- 
nes longe emittens. Culmus 1—32pcdalis, ex basi plus minus depressa stricte 
adscendens, teres, glaber, pallide virens. oZa linearia; radicalia fasciculata 
angustiora et longa, culmea breviora, summum parvum, canaliculato-plana, gla- 
bra, apicem versus margine et carina scabra, obtusiuscula vel apice cucullata 
acumine terminata, viridia; vagznc glabre, striatz, subcompresse; Zrgu/a bre- 
visima, obtusa. Janicuía squalis, patenter diffusa, pyramidali-ovata, post an- 
thesin ovalis contracta, 3-6 uncias longa, apice plerumque cernua; rachzs super- 
