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SHOOT-SECTIONS 



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In these latter cases the transverse section may be 

 elliptical — e.g. Poa pratensis and P. alpina, Briza, &c., 



Fig. 6. DactylU glomerata. 

 Transverse section of a 

 leaf-shoot ( x 5). A, con- 

 duplicate leaf -blade. B, 

 sheath. Stebler. 



Fig. 7. Digraphis arundinacea. Trans- 

 verse section of a leaf-shoot {x5). 

 A, sheath. B, convolute 

 Compare Fig. 14. Stebler. 



or more flattened and linear-oblong — e.g. Glyceria flui- 

 tans — with the flattened sides straight, or the section is 

 oval but pointed more or less at each end owing to pro- 

 jecting keels and leaf-edges, and the form is naviculate — 

 e.g. Glyceria aquatica, Dactylis (Fig. 6) — or, the sides being 

 less flattened, more or less rhomboidal as in Poa trivialis. 

 In Melica the leaves are convolute and the shoot-section 

 quadrangular. 



Flat, and usually sharp-edged shoots. 



Doictylis glomerata (Fig. 6). 



Poa trivialis, P. annua, P. pratensis, P. compressa, P. maritima, 



and P. alpina. 

 Olyceria aqvMtica and G. fluitans. 

 A vena pubescens. 

 LoKum perenne. 



