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POA MARITIMA. 
Hupson. Hooxrr anp Arnott. J. E. Smiru. 
Pagnett. Linnzus. Knapp. GREvVILLE. WILLDENow. Dicxson. 
ScuraperR. Rotn. Oxrper. HULL. 
Wirnerinc. Licutroot. Reiyan. Deakin, 
PLATE XXXIV.—B. 
Sclerochloa maritima, Linpiry. Smira. Kocw. Basinerton. 
Festuca thalassia, Kunrta. 
Glyceria maritima, J. EH. Smita. Ratrs. RericHENBACH. 
The Creeping Sea Meadow-Grass. 
Poa—Grass. Maritima—Maritime. 
THE Poa maritima grows in salt-marshes, and is therefore 
not an agricultural Grass. 
Found along the coast in the counties of Northumberland, 
Durham, Gloucester, Norfolk, Kent, Sussex, Somerset, and 
Devonshire. Also around Anglesea; more abundant along the 
coasts of Ireland and Scotland. 
Abroad it is a native of France, Italy, Germany, Norway, 
Sweden, Lapland, Iceland, and North America. 
Stem upright, circular, and smooth, bent at the base. Each 
stem has three or four compressed, mostly folded, roughish 
leaves, with smooth swollen sheaths; upper sheath longer than 
its leaf, having a blunt decurrent ligule at the apex. Joints 
smooth, four in number. Inflorescence mostly simple-panicled, 
the panicle being upright, compact, and spreading when in 
flower, unilateral; rachis bare behind. Branches smooth, ar- 
ranged in twos, threes, or fives, on the rachis. Spikelets linear, 
