POA FLUJTANS. 



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POA FLUITANS. 



SCOPOLI. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. PARNELL. 

 SMITH. GREVILLE. KNAPP. SALISBURY. SCHRADER. DEAKIN. 



PLATE XXXIV. A. 



Festuca fluilans, 



G lye en a fluitans, 

 a ii 



pticata, 



" pedicellata, 

 Gramen fluviatile, 



LlNN^US. WlLLDENOW. HUDSON. CURTIS'. 



MARTYN. OEDEK. HOST. SCHREBER. 



LEERS. HULL. SIBTHOKP. ABBOT. 



SMITH. LINDLEY. RALFS. BROWN. 



SINCLAIR. 



FRIES. 



TOWNS. 



GERARDE. 



The Floating Meadow- Grass. 



Poa Grass. 



Fluitans Floating. 



THE present very graceful Grass will yield a good crop in damp 

 meadows, and cattle are fond of its leaves. It usually grows in 

 wet situations, in ditches, ponds, and along the margins of rivers. 



Common throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland. 



Native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, 

 Norway, Sweden, New Holland, North America, and Northern Africa. 



Stem, near the base, decumbent, the other portion upright, circular 

 and smooth, bearing six or seven lengthy, linear, rough leaves, with 

 rough striated sheaths, upper one extending beyond its leaf, and having 

 a lengthy, ragged, pointed ligule at its apex. Joints smooth, about 

 seven in number. Inflorescence simple-panicled. Panicle almost up- 

 right, long and slender, having rough branches arranged in pairs on 

 the rachis. Spikelets few, long and linear, striped with green and 

 white, of six to fourteen florets, the apex of basal floret stretching 

 considerably beyond the large glume of the calyx. Calyx consisting 



