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POA LOLIACEA. 



HUDSON. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. PARNELL. KOCH. RELHAN. 

 PLATE XXXVII. A. 



Triticum loltaceum, SMITH. HOOKER. WILLDENOW. 



" " WITHERING. KNAPP. SCHRADER. 



" " DEAKIN. REICHENBACH. RALFS. 



" unilateral, AITON. HOST. (A r ot of LINN^US.) 



Catapodium unilaterale, LINK. LINDLEY. 



Sclerochloa loliacea, WOODS. BABINGTON. 



The Dwarf Wheat Meadow-Grass . 

 Poa Grass. Loliacea Made of Tares. 



POA LOLIACEA grows on rocks and sandy soils along the sea 

 coast in small tufts, and is a useless agricultural Grass. 



Found in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Sussex, Somerset, 

 Hants, Kent, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, York, Lancashire, 

 Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland. In Wales, in Flint, Gla- 

 morgan, and the Island of Anglesea. Frequent on the coast of Fife. 

 Occasionally in Ireland. 



Found also in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Portugal. 



Stem ascending, slightly curved, stout, smooth, and striated, bearing 

 three or four linear, smooth leaves, with smooth striated sheaths; 

 upper one equal in length to its leaf, and having an obtuse, ragged 

 ligule at its apex. Lower sheaths shorter than their leaves. Inflo- 

 rescence racemed. Spikelets oblong-ovate, on brief, stout footstalks, 

 arranged alternately on either side of the rough rachis, all in one 

 direction, so as to hide the rachis and front, and to leave it bare behind. 

 From eight to twelve florets. Calyx of two equal, acute glumes, des- 

 titute of lateral ribs. Dorsal rib prominent. Florets of two paleaB, 



