POA BULBOSA. 
Linnzus. Hooker anp Arnorr. Situ. Parnett. Basineron. 
Kuntu. Kocw. Kwnapr. Wirnerine. LInptey. 
Witipenow. Hupson. Scuraper. Deakin. Macreicut. Dittwyn. 
Host. Reicuensacu. Ratrs. Hutt. 
PLATE XXXIX.—A. 
The Bulbous Meadow-Grass. 
Poa—Grass. Bulbosa—Bulbous. 
A Grass growing on the sandy shores of the south and east 
of England, abundantly, especially in Norfolk and Suffolk. Of 
inferior agricultural merits. 
Native of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Siberia, 
and North Africa. 
Stem circular, smooth, hollow, and striated, bearmg four or 
five flat, acute leaves, with smooth, striated sheaths, the upper 
sheath much longer than its leaf. Joints mostly three. Inflo- 
rescence panicled, branches rough. Spikelets ovate, green, or 
tinged with purple; composed of two glumes, and three or four 
florets. Glumes equal, and three-ribbed, keels above dentate. 
Florets longer than the glumes, copiously webbed at the base, 
of two palex, exterior one of basal floret five-ribbed. Styles 
two. Stigmas feathery. Filaments three, and feathery. Anthers 
notched at either extremity. 
Length from five to nine inches. Root perennial and bulbous; 
soon after flowering the leaves wither, after which the bulbs 
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