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POA DISTANS. 



LiNNiEus. Hooker and Arnott. 



J. E. Smith. Paenell. Willdenow. Knapp. Withering. Schrader. 



Host. Deakin. Lindley. Sinclair. 



PLATE XXXIII. 



Sclerochloa dislans, Babington. 



Glyceria Smith. Koch. Ralfs. Reichenbach. 



Festuca " Kunth. 



Poa retroflexa, Curtis. 



" salina, Pollich. 



Air* aquatica, var., Hudson. 



The Reflex ed Meadow-Grass. 



Poa — Grass. Distans — Distant. 



A pretty Grass, but worthless to the agriculturist. 



Rare in Scotland. In England found in Devonshire, Somer- 

 setshire, Sussex, Kent, Cambridge, Bedford, Worcestershire, 

 Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, York, Durham, and 

 Northumberland. In Wales in Denbigh and Flintshire; and 

 in Ireland near Dublin. 



Abroad, a native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, 

 Prussia, Norway, and Sweden. 



Stem upright, circular, polished, often decumbent at the base, 

 having four flat acute leaves, with smooth striated sheaths; upper 

 sheath longer than its leaf, having an obtuse ligule at the apex. 

 Joints three, smooth. Inflorescence compound-panicled. Panicle 

 upright. Branches rough and slender, arranged in twos, threes, 

 or fives, the basal ones rigid, and bent downwards. Spikelets 

 linear. ' Calyx consisting of two blunt, membranous, unequal 



