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POA PEOCUMBENS, 



CuETis. Smith. Hookee and Abbott. Pabkeil. 

 Knapp. Dbakiit. 



PLATE XXXV. A. 



SclerocMoa procumhens, Bbautois. Lindlet. Babington. 



Olyceria proiyumbens. Smith. B,ales. Ebichenbach. 



Poa rupestris, Withbeing. 



The Procumbent Sea Meadow-Grass. 



Poa — Grass. Procumhens — Procumbent. 



Another sea-side Grass, growing on waste land, and more 

 or less glaucous in appearance. 



Frequent in Durham, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, 

 Norfolk, Sussex, Dorsetshire, and Devonshire. Rare in Ireland 

 and Scotland. 



Also a native of France and Germany. 



Stem somewhat prostrate, circular, and polished, having 

 three ilat, ribbed, sharp-pointed leaves, with smooth striated 

 sheaths. Upper sheath extending considerably beyond its leaf, 

 situated near the panicle, and having an oblong membranous 

 ligule at its apex. Joints smooth, and three in number. Inflores- ■ 

 cence both simple and compound-panicled. Panicle compact, 

 lanceolate in shape, unilateral; rachis behind bare. Branches 

 rough. Spikelets linear, mostly of five florets; apex of basal 

 floret stretching some distance beyond the larger glume of the 

 calyx. Calyx consisting of two unequal-sized, blunt, membra- 

 nous glumes, with three bold ribs. Florets of two paleae; 

 exterior one of basal floret five-ribbed, slightly hirsute at the 



