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POA NEMOHALIS. 



LiNHJJUS. HOOKEE AND AeNOTT. SmITH. PaENELL. GrEBVILLE. LkEES. 



Koch. Willdbnow. Knapp. Scheadee. Host. Ehehaet. 



Oedee. Deakin. Sinclaie. Lindlet. Maceeight. Kunth. Bales. 



Babington. Witheeing. Httll. Eelhan. Sibthoep. Abbot. 



PLATE XL. A. 



Poa glauca. Smith. Lindlet. Sinclaie. 



" Parnelli, Babington. Paenell. 



" montana, Paenell. 



" Balfourii, Paenell. 



" angustifolia, Hudson. 



" pratensis, Withbeing. Hull. 



The Wood Meadow-Grass. 



Poa — Grass. Nemoralis — Of a wood. 



A VALUABLE agricultural Grass, usually growing in woods, 

 yet succeeding well when cultivated in a field. 



A common English Grass; abundant in Ireland, yet less 

 frequent in Scotland. 



Found also in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lapland, Iceland, 

 France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Prussia, Northern Asia, and 

 the United States. 



Stem upright, slender, and compressed, bearing five or six 

 linear, flat, narrow, acute leaves, with smooth striated sheaths, 

 the upper sheath not longer than its leaf, and bearing at its 

 apex a brief obtuse ligule. Joints about five, smooth. Inflo- 

 rescence compound-panicled. Panicle somewhat pendulous, 

 spreading near the base in twos, threes, or fours. Spikelets 



