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POA DISTANS. 



LINNJEUS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. 



]. E. SMITH. PARNELL. WILLDENOW. KNAPP. WITHERING. SCHRADER. 

 HOST. DEAKIN. LINDLEY. SINCLAIR. 



PLATE XXXIII. 



Sclerochloa distans, BARINGTON. 



Glyceria distans, SMITH. KOCH. RALFS. REICHENBACH, 



Festuca distans, KUNTH. 



Poa retroflexa, CURTIS. 



" salina, POLLICH. 



Aira aquatica, var., HUDSON. 



The Reflexed Meadow- Grass, 

 Poa Grass. Distans Distant. 



A PRETTY Grass, but Worthless to the agriculturist. 

 .i\ Rare in Scotland. In England found in Devonshire, Somer- 

 setshire, Sussex, Cambridge, Bedford, Worcestershire, Leicestershire, 

 Kent, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, York, Durham, and Northumber- 

 land. In Wales in Denbigh and Flintshire; and in Ireland near Dublin. 



Abroad, a native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Prussia, 

 Norway, and Sweden. 



Stem upright, circular, polished, often decumbent at the base, having 

 four flat acute leaves, with smooth striated sheaths; upper sheath 

 longer than its leaf, having an obtuse ligule at the apex. Joints three, 

 smooth. Inflorescence compound-panicled. Panicle upright. Branches 

 rough and slender, arranged in twos, threes, or fives, the basal ones 

 rigid, and bent downwards. Spikelets linear. Calyx consisting of two 

 blunt, membranous, unequal glumes, three-ribbed; exterior glume half 

 the length of inner glume. Florets of two equal-sized palese; exterior 

 one of lowest floret five-ribbed; base in some degree hirsute; inner 



