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POA BULBOSA. 



LiNlfiETJS. HOOKEE AND AenOTT. SmITH. PaENELL. BABINaiON. 



EuNTH. Koch. Knapp. Witheeing. Lindiet. 



WiLLDENow. Hudson. Scheadbe. Deakin. Macebight. Dillwtn. 



Host. Ebichenbach. Ealfs. HrrLi. 



PLATE XXXIX.- 



The Bulbous Meadow-Grass. 



Poa — Grass. Bullosa — Bulbous. 



A Grass growing on the sandy shores of the south and east 

 of England abundantly, especially in Norfolk and Suffolk. Of 

 inferior agricultural merits. 



Native of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Siberia, 

 and North Africa. 



Stem circular, smooth, hollow, and striated, bearing four or 

 five flat, acute leaves, with smooth, striated sheaths, the upper 

 sheath much longer than its leaf. Joints mostly three. Inflo- 

 rescence panicled, branches rough. Spikelets ovate, green, or 

 tinged with purple; composed of two glumes, and three or four 

 florets. Glumes equal, and three-ribbed, keels above dentate. 

 Florets longer than the glumes, copiously webbed at the base, 

 of two palese, exterior one of basal floret flve-ribbed. Styles 

 two. Stigmas feathery. Filaments three, and feathery. Anthers 

 notched at either extremity. 



Length from five to nine inches. Root perennial and bulbous; 

 soon after flowering the leaves wither, after which the bulbs 



