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Botanical Section 



[PT I 



"Seeds" 1-5 to 2-5 mm. long. Outer palea three-nerved, 

 each nerve hairy on its lower half. The inner palea is fringed 

 with finer and more numerous hairs than in Poa pratensis, and the 

 outer palea also spreads more widely open. Kachilla smooth, 

 cylindrical, outstanding. A delicate "web" of white hairs is pre- 

 sent at the base of the palese in "uncleaned" samples. (Fig. 138.) 







Fig. 138. "Seed" of same- 

 x 10. To the right is 

 shown the appearance 

 of the hair fringe on 

 the margins of the inner 

 palea when highly mag- 

 nified. W. the "web." 



Fig. 137. Panicle of Poa 

 compressa. About 

 nat. size. 



Poa distans, L. (Reflexed Meadow-grass.) A somewhat rare 

 perennial with culms from 12-18 inches high. Flowers about 

 July. The rachis of the panicle is rough, and its lower branches 

 become obliquely bent downwards after flowering. Spikelets 

 linear-lanceolate, 4-7 flowered. The outer palea five-nerved, 

 and without a "web" at its base. 



