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POA LOLIACEA. 



HtTDSON. HoOKEE AND AeNOTT. PaENELL. KoCH. EeLHAN. 

 PLATE XXXVII. A. 



Triticum loliaceum, Smith. Hookbe. Willdenow. 



" " WiTHEEING. KnAPP. ScHEADEE. 



" " Deakin. Eeichesbach. Ealfs. 



" wnilaterale, AiTON. Host, {not of Linn^tjs.) 



Catapodium unilaterale, Link. Lindlet. 



SclerocMoa loliacea. Woods. Babinoton. 



The Dwarf Wheat Meadow-Grass. 



Poa — Grass. Loliacea — Made of Tares. 



Poa loliacea grows on rocks and sandy soils along the sea 

 coast in small tufts, and is a useless agricultural Grass. 



Found in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Sussex, 

 Somerset, Hants, Kent, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, 

 York, Lancashire, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland. 

 In Wales, in Flint, Glamorgan, and the Island of Anglesea. 

 Frequent on the coast of Fife. Occasionally in Ireland. 



Found also in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Portugal. 



Stem ascending, slightly curved, stout, smooth, and striated, 

 bearing three or four linear, smooth leaves, with smooth striated 

 sheaths; upper one equal in length to its leaf, and having an 

 obtuse, ragged ligule at its apex. Lower sheaths shorter than 

 their leaves. Inflorescence racemed. Spikelets oblong-ovate, on 

 brief, stout footstalks, arranged alternately on either side of the 

 rough rachis, all turned in one direction, so as to hide the 

 rachis and front, and to leave it bare behind. From eight to 



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