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POA PROCUMBENS. 
Curtis. Smita. Hooxrr anp ARNOTT. PARNELL. 
Knapp. Deakin. 
PLATE XXXV.—A. 
Sclerochloa procumbens, Beavvoris. Linptry. Basineron. 
Glyceria ss SmirH. Ratrs. ReIcHENBACH. 
Poa rupestris, WIHITHERING. 
The Procumbent Sea Meadow-Grass. 
Poa—Grass. Procumbens—Procumbent. 
ANOTHER sea-side Grass, growing on waste land, and more 
or less glaucous in appearance. 
Frequent in Durham, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, 
Norfolk, Sussex, Dorsetshire, and Devonshire. Rare in Ireland 
and Scotland. 
Also a native of France and Germany. 
Stem somewhat prostrate, circular, and polished, having 
three flat, ribbed, sharp-pointed leaves, with smooth striated 
sheaths. Upper sheath extending considerably beyond its leaf, 
situated near the panicle, and haying an oblong membranous 
ligule at its apex. Joints smooth, and three in number. Inflores- 
cence both simple and compound-panicled. Panicle compact, 
lanceolate in shape, unilateral; rachis behind bare. Branches 
rough. Spikelets linear, mostly of five florets; apex of basal 
floret stretching some distance beyond the larger glume of the 
calyx. Calyx consisting of two unequal-sized, blunt, membra- 
nous glumes, with three bold ribs. Florets of two palex; 
exterior one of basal floret five-ribbed, slightly hirsute at the 
