tm m.Poa. 10. GH AMINES. PL end. ph. 



Poa nemoralis /3, Sjyiith Flor. Brit, 106. 

 Poa angustifolia a, Huds. Fl. Angl. 40. 

 Poa pratensis 2, With, Bot.Arr. 142. 

 Poa nemoralis, Vill. Delph. 2, 129, 

 Poa nemoralis firmula, Gaud. Agr. Helv. 181. 



Woods ; perennial ; .Tune, July. 



Culm erect, 2 feet hicfb, naked above; panicle spreading; 

 peduncles nearly verticillate, branchy, naked below. 



6. Poa glauca„ Seagreen Tueadoiv-grass. 

 Pajvcle spikeshaped, straight, few-fiowered ; locustce 2 or 



S-flowered, coloured, much longer than the glumes; glvmes 

 acute ; glumelles obtuse, villose ; leaves fiat, plaited at bot- 

 tom ; culm stiff, in bundles. 



Poa glauca, Smith Flor. Brit. 1388. 



Poa nemoralis glauca, Gaud. Agr. Helv. 182. 



Mountains ; perennial ; June, July. 



Root tufted; culms many, 2 feet high, smooth, leafy be- 

 low, compressed; leaves fiat, slender; sheath almost as long 

 as the leaves ; ligula very short, crenate ; panicle almost 

 1-sided ; peduncles short, 1 to 2-fiowered, adpressed, in 

 pairs or threes ; locusicB ovate, small, violet, scarcely ribbed. 



7. Poa ccBsia. Gray meadow-grass. 

 Panicle pyramidical, many- flowered ; locustcB 4 or 5-fiow- 



ered, elliptical, acute, coloured, lai'ger than the gluimes ; 

 glumes acute ; glumelles constricted or free ; leaves and 

 culm glaucous. 



Poa csesia, Smith Fl Brit. 103. 



Poa giauca, Poiret Ench. Meth. 5,78. 



Poa nemoralis cassia, Gaud. Agr. Helv. 184. 



Mountains ; perennial ; June, July. 



Root fibrous, tufted ; tierh ghuicous ; cnlm 1 foot high, 

 erect, round, striated, above naked ; leaves fiat ; sheath 

 round, keeled ; V'gula short, lanceolate, torn ; panicle erect, 

 diffused ; peduncles nearly verticillate, branchy ; locustce 

 pvate, erect, glaucous, and purple. 



C. Locustce puleticent ; glumelles free at lottom. 



8. Poa annua. yinm/al meadotv-grass. 

 Panicle 1-sided; peduncles in pairs, divaricated; locusicB 



oblong, ovate, 5 to 7-fiowered ; ligula' short, obtuse ; culm 

 oblique, slightly compressed ; root fibrous, annual. 



Gramen pratense minus seu vuigntissimum, Rail Sijn. 408. 

 Gramcn pratense niinimiim album et rubrum, Park. 1 L56. 

 Poa annua, Lin. S, P. 99. 

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