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Fig. 546. Poa nemoralis Liuu. Sp. PI. 69. XoRTHf:RN Speai:- 

 GRASS or Wood Meadow-grass. A slender, erect, and ratlier 

 rigid perennial 1.5 to 6 dm. high, with narrow, flat leaves and 

 usually o^ien panicles 4 to 10 cm. long. Spikelets 2- to 5-flowered, 

 3 to 5 mm. long, with very acute empty glumes (a) and faintly 

 nerved flowering glumes, which are 2 to 3 mm. long and webbed 

 at the base. Dry or rather moist soil, Labrador and Xewfound- 

 laud to Pennsylvania, westward to British Columbia, Idaho, and 

 Colorado. [Europe, Asia.] .Tune-September. 



