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POA DISTANS. 
Linnzxus. Hooxrer anp ARNoTT. 
J.E. Smita. Parnett. Wittpenow. Kwnapp. WirHertnc. ScHRADER. 
Host. Deakin. Linpiey. SINCLAIR. 
PLATE XXXIII. 
Sclerochloa distans, BaBineTon. 
Glyceria “ SmirH. Koca. Ratrs. RericHENnBacn. 
Festuca Gi Kunra. 
Poa retroflexa, Curtis. 
“salina, Po.uticuH. 
Aira aquatica, var., Hupson. 
The Reflexed Meadow-Grass. 
Poa—Grass. Distans—Distant. 
A pretty Grass, but worthless to the agriculturist. 
Rare im Scotland. In England found in Devonshire, Somer- 
setshire, Sussex, Kent, Cambridge, Bedford, Worcestershire, 
Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, York, Durham, and 
Northumberland. In Wales in Denbigh and Flintshire; and 
in Ireland near Dublin. 
Abroad, a native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, 
Prussia, Norway, and Sweden. 
Stem upright, circular, polished, often decumbent at the base, 
having four flat acute leaves, with smooth striated sheaths; upper 
sheath longer than its leaf, having an obtuse ligule at the apex. 
Joints three, smooth. Inflorescence compound-panicled. Panicle 
upright. Branches rough and slender, arranged in twos, threes, 
or fives, the basal ones rigid, and bent downwards. Spikelets 
linear. Calyx consisting of two blunt, membranous, unequal 
