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POA MARITIMA. 



Hudson. Hookee and Arnott. J. E. Smith. 



Parnell. Linn^us. Knapp. Greville. Willdenow. Dickson. 



Scheader. Roth. Oeder. Hull 



Withering. Lightfoot. Eelhan. Deakin. 



PLATE XXXIV. B. 



Selerochloa maritima, Lindlet. Smith. Koch. Babington. 



Festucu thalassia, Kunth. 



Glycerin maritima, J. E. Smith. Ealfs. Reichenbach. 



The Creeping Sea Meadow- Grass. 



Poa — Grass. Maritima — Maritime. 



The Poa maritima grows in salt-marshes, and is therefore 

 not an agricultural Grass. 



Found along the coast in the counties of Northumberland, 

 Durham, Gloucester, Norfolk, Kent, Sussex, Somerset, and 

 Devonshire. Also around Anglesea; more abundant along the 

 coasts of Ireland and Scotland. 



Abroad it is a native of France, Italy, Germanv, Norway, 

 Sweden, Lapland, Iceland, and North America. 



Stem upright, circular, and smooth, bent at the base. Each 

 stem has three or four compressed, mostly folded, roughish 

 leaves, with smooth swollen sheaths; upper sheath longer than 

 its leaf, having a blunt decurrent ligule at the apex. Joints 

 smooth, four in number. Inflorescence mostly simple-panicled, 

 the panicle being upright, compact, and spreading when in 

 flower, unilateral; rachis bare behind. Branches smooth, ar- 

 ranged in twos, threes, or fives, on the jrachis. Spikelets linear, 



