SAND FESCUE 



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There are from two to many 

 flowers in the spikelet. The low- 

 est glumes are empty, the rest 

 flowering. There are 3 stamens 

 and 2 styles, which are short and 

 terminal, and the stigmas are 

 feathery. The flowers are anemo- 

 philous. 



The fruits are enveloped in 

 the glume, and may be partially 

 wind-borne or fall to the ground. 



This grass is a sand plant and 

 addicted to a sand soil. 



Poa, Theophrastus, is the 

 Greek for grass, and the second 

 Latin name refers to the con- 

 tracted panicle. The plant is 

 called Squitch Grass. 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARAC- 

 TERS : 



338. Poa compressa, L. Stem 

 compressed, geniculate, leaves in- 

 volute, panicle secund, ligule pro- 

 minent, palea downy-veined. 



Sand Fescue (Festuca 

 Myuros, L.) 



The distribution of Sand Fescue 

 to-day is the N. Temperate Zone 

 in Europe, and N. Africa, and 

 it has been introduced into N. 

 America. In Great Britain it is 

 found in the Peninsula province, 

 except in N. Devon; the Channel 

 province, except in N. Hants; 

 Thames, Anglia provinces, except 

 in W. Suffolk; Severn province; 

 in S. Wales, only in Glamorgan, 

 Radnor, Carmarthen ; in N. Wales, 

 in Carnarvon, Denbigh, Anglesea; 



Photo. H. Irving. 



FLAT-STALKED POA (Poa compressa, L.) 



