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POA MARITIMA. 



Hudson. Hooker and Aenott. J. E. Smith. Paenell. 



LinnjEus. Knapp. Gebvillb. "Willdbnow. Dickson. Schkadbe. 



B.OTH. Oedee. Withesino. Huti;. Liohtpoot. 



E.BLHAN. DeAKIN. 

 PLATE XXXIV. B. 



Sclerochloa maritima, Lindlet. Smith. Koch. Babington. 



Festuca thalassia, Kunth. 



Glyceria mwritima, J. E. Smith. Ralfs. Eeichenbach. 



The Creeping Sea Meadow-Grass. 



Poa — Grass. Maritima — Maritime. 



The Poa maritima grows in salt-marshes, and is therefore 

 not an agricultural grass. 



Found along the coast in the counties of Northumberland, 

 Durham, Gloucester, Norfolk, Kent, Sussex, Somerset, and 

 Devonshire, Also around Anglesea; more abundant along the 

 coasts of Ireland and Scotland. 



Abroad it is a native of France, Italy, Germany, Norway, 

 Sweden, Lapland, Iceland, and North America. 



Stem upright, circular, and smooth, bent at the base. Each 

 stem has three or four compressed, mostly folded, roughish 

 leaves, with smooth swollen sheaths; upper sheath longer than 

 its leaf, having a blunt decurrent ligule at the apex. Joints 

 smooth, four in number. Inflorescence mostly simple-panicled, 

 the panicle being;' upright, compact,' and spreading when 

 in flower, unilateral; rachis bare behind. Branches smooth, 

 arranged in twos, threes, or fives, on the rachis. Spikelets linear. 



