PLend.pk. 10. GRAMINE^. 54. Poa. 103 



Sandy shores ; perennial ; July. 



Culm decumbent at bottom, 1 foot high, very smooth, 

 round, leafy; leaves involute, glaucous; ligula obtuse; 

 panicle erect; peduncles slightly flexuous, first spreading, 

 then erect becoming divaricated ; locustce purplish. 



3. Voa distans. Loose-Jiowered meadow grass. 

 Panicle equal, becoming divaricated; fruit-bearing 



branches deflexed ; locustce 4 to 6-flowered, roundish ; 

 flowrets distant, very obtuse, obsoletely 5-ribbed; culm 

 ascending ; root fibrous. 



Aira aquatica jS, Hudson Fl. Angl. 34. 

 Poa salina ? Pollich. vi. 89. 

 Poa retroflexa, Curt, Land. 6, 1. 

 Poa distans, Lin. Mant. 32. 



Rejlexed meadow-grass. 



Sandy fields near the sea ; perennial ; July. 



Culms many, 18 inches high, leafy, smooth; leaves 

 longly sheathed, smooth, flat; radical leaves slightly in- 

 volute; ligula obtuse; panicle erect; locusla green, or 

 green and purple; lower spathelle 1-ribbed; upper 3-ribbed. 



(3. glauca. Glaucous, very stiff. 

 Salt marshes. 



b. Locustce pubescent ; ligula truncated, or nearly wanting, 



4. Poa nemoralis. Grove meadow-grass. 

 Panicle long, few-flowered, drooping; locustce 2 or 



3-flowered, pale, ovate, small, as long as the glumes ; glumes 

 acute ; glumelles acute, free, subvenose ; leaves flat, plaited 

 at bottom; culm weak. 



Poa nemoralis, Lin. S. P. 102, 



Poa ans!:ustifolia /S, Huds. Fl. Angl. 41. 



Poa nemoralis vulgaris, Gaudin Agr. Helv. 179. 



Woods ; perennial ; June. 



Root slightly creeping, tufted; culm light green, 18 in. long, 

 slender, smooth ; leaves flat, slender, base pleated ; sheaths 

 shortish, smooth ; panicle slender ; peduncles in pairs or 

 threes ; locustce green ; spat/ielles nearly equal, very acute, 

 3-ribbed. 



5. Poafirmula. Stiffish meadow-grass. 

 Panicle pyramidical, many-flowered, erect ; locustcB 2 or 



3-flowered, slightly coloured, ovate, longer than the glumes ; 

 glumes acute ; glumelles acute, free, subvenose ; leaves flat;^ 

 plaited at bottom ; culm firm. 



