POA MABITIMA. 109 



POA MARITIMA. 



HUDSON. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. J. E. SMITH. PARNELL. 



LINNJEUS. KNAPP. GREVILLE. WILLDENOW. DICKSON. SCHRADER. 



ROTH. OEDER. WITHERING. HULL. LIGHTFOOT. 



RELHAN. DEAKIN. 



PLATE XXXIV. B. 



Sderochloa maritima, LINDLEY. SMITH. KOCH. BABINGTON. 



Festuca thalassia, KUNTH. 



Glyceria maritima, J. E. SMITH. RALFS. REICHEN,BACH. 



Jlie Creeping Sea Meadow- Grass. 

 Poa Grass. Maritima Maritime. 



B Poa maritima grows in salt- marshes, and is therefore not an 

 agricultural Grass. 



Found along the coast in the counties of Northumberland, Durham, 

 Gloucester, Norfolk, Kent, Sussex, Somerset, and Devonshire. Also 

 around Anglesea; more abundant along the coasts of Ireland and 

 Scotland. 



Abroad it is a native of France, Italy, Germany Norway, Sweden, 

 Lapland, Iceland, and North America. 



Stem upright, circular, and smooth, bent at the base. Each stem 

 has three or four compressed, mostly folded, roughish leaves, with 

 smooth swollen sheaths; upper sheath longer than its leaf, having a 

 blunt decurrent ligule at the apex. Joints smooth, four in number. 

 Inflorescence mostly siniple-panicled, the panicle being upright, compact, 

 and spreading when in flower, unilateral; rachis bare behind. Branches 

 smooth, arranged in twos, threes, or fives, on the rachis. Spikelets 

 linear, of six to ten florets; apex of basal floret stretches considerably 

 beyond the large glume of the calyx. Calyx consisting of two mem- 

 branous glumes, three-ribbed; inner glume nearly twice the length of 



