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POA DISTANS. 



LlNNJETTS. HOOKBE AND AbNOTT. 



J. E. Smith. Paekbli. Willdbnow. Enapp. Withesino. Schbadee. 

 Host. Deakin. Lindlby. Sinclaie. 



PLATE XXXIII. 



Sclerochloa distant, Babingtom'. 



Olyceria distans, Smith. Eoch. E.alps. Ebichbnbach. 



Festuca distans, Kunth. 



Poa retrojlexa, Cuetis. 



Poa salina, PoLtiCH. 



Aira aquatica, var., Hudson. 



The Reflexed Meadow-Grass. 



Poa — Grass. Distans — Distant. 



A PRETTY Grass, but worthless to the agriculturist. 



Kara in Scotland. In England found in Devonshire^ Somer- 

 setshire, Sussex, Kent, Cambridge, Bedford, "Worcestershire, 

 Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, York, Durham, and 

 Northumberland. In Wales in Denbigh and Flintshire; and 

 in Ireland near Dublin. 



Abroad, a native of Prance, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, 

 Prussia, Norway, and Sweden. 



Stem upright, circular, polished, often decumbent at the base, 

 having four flat acute leaves, with smooth striated sheaths; upper 

 sheath longer than its leaf, having an obtuse ligule at the apex. 

 Joints three, smooth. Inflorescence compound-panicled. Panicle 

 upright. Branches rough and slender, arranged in twos, threes, 

 or fives, the basal ones rigid, and bent downwards. Spikelets 

 linear. Calyx consisting of two blunt, membranous, unequal 



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