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POA BULBOSA. 



LINNAEUS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. SMITH. PARNELL. BABINGTON. 



KUNTH. KOCH. KNAPP. WITHERING. LINDLEY. 



WlLLDENOW. HUDSON. SCHRADER. DEAKIN. MACREIGHT. DlLLWYN. 

 HOST. REICHENBACH. RALFS. HULL. 



PLATE XXXIX. A. 



The Bulbous Meadow- Grass. 

 Poa Grass. Bulbosa Bulbous. 



AGE ASS growing on the sandy shores of the south and east of 

 England abundantly, especially in Norfolk and Suffolk. Of inferior 

 agricultural merits. 



Native of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Siberia, and 

 North Africa. 



Stem circular, smooth, hollow, and striated, bearing four or five flat, 

 acute leaves, with smooth, striated sheaths, the upper sheath much 

 longer than its leaf. Joints mostly three. Inflorescence panicled, 

 branches rough. Spikelets ovate, green, or tinged with purple; com- 

 posed of two glumes, and three or four florets. Glumes equal, and 

 three-ribbed, keels above dentate. Florets longer than the glumes 

 copiously webbed at the base, of two paleae, exterior one of basal floret 

 five-ribbed. Styles two. Stigmas feathery. Filaments three, and 

 feathery. Anthers notched at either extremity. 



Length from five to nine inches. Root perennial and bulbous; soon 

 after flowering the leaves wither, after which the bulbs lie loose on 

 the sand till autumn, when they again take root. 



Flowers in April and May. 



The specimen for illustration was gathered near Yarmouth by Mr. 

 T. Coward. 



