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POA NEMORALIS. 



LINNAEUS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. SMITH. PARNELL. GREVILLE. LEERS. 



KOCH. WlLLDENOW. KNAPP. SCHRADER. HOST. EHRHART. 



OEDER. DEAKIN. SINCLAIR. LINDLEY. MACREIGHT. KUNTH. RALFS. 



BABINGTON. WITHER TNO. HULI,. RELHAN. SIBTHORP. ABBOT. 



PLATE XL. A. 



Poa glauca, SMITH. LINDLEY. SINCLAIR. 



" Parnelli, BABINGTON. PARNELL. 



" montana, PARNELL. 



" Balfourii, PARNELL. 



" angustifolia, HUDSON. 



" pratensis, WITHERING. HULL. 



The Wood Meadow- Grass. 

 Poa Grass. Nemoralis Of a wood. 



A VALUABLE agricultural Grass usually growing in woods, yet 

 -JL succeeding well when cultivated in a field. 



A common English Grass; abundant in Ireland, yet less frequent in 

 Scotland. 



Found also in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lapland, Iceland, France, 

 Italy, Spain, Germany, Prussia, Northern Asia, and the United States. 



Stem upright, slender, and compressed, bearing five or six linear, 

 flat, narrow, acute leaves, with smooth striated sheaths, the upper 

 sheath not longer than its leaf, and bearing at its apex a brief obtuse 

 ligule. Joints about five, smooth. Inflorescence compound-panicled. 

 Panicle somewhat pendulous, spreading near the base in twos, threes, 

 or fours. Spikelets ovate, acute, of three or five awnless florets; the 

 apex of basal one stretching slightly beyond the large glume of the 

 calyx. Calyx of almost equal, acute, three-ribbed glumes, the dorsal 

 rib being dentate above. Florets of two paleae; the exterior one of 



