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Via. 539. Poa trivialis Linn. .'-ip. I'l. 67. Rough-stalked 

 Meadow-grass. An ('rfcr, usually slender perennial 3 to 'J diu. 

 liij^b, with Hat leaves and open, many-flowered pauicles, > to 15 

 cm. long. Culms usually rnuj;li near the panicle, v*^pik(dets 2- to 

 3-liowcred, about 3 mm. long, with very acute empty glumes (a), 

 and strongly .^-nerved (lowering glumes, silky-pubesoent on the 

 keel below and with long, eohwebhy hairs at the base. Meadows 

 and roadsides thronghont. fKuro]o.] May-August. 



