58 TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 



es solitary and in threes, hairy and flexuous. Calix 

 glumes 2-valved pallid, 2-flowered, the hermaph- 

 rodite flower sessile, the male pedicellated, valves 

 ciliated three nerved dotted. Cor. hermaphrodite 

 2-valved glabrous awnless. Stam. 3. Pist. 2, 

 feathery. Cor. male 2-valved aristated. MuhL 



White-Timothy* Salem grass. 



About twelve inches high . Whole plant soft and woolly, 

 with the panicle often purple. Grows in moist meadows in 

 Jersey, abundantly ; the Pennsylvania side of the river more 

 rare. It makes good fodder. Perennial. June. 



54. Poa, Gen. pi. 114. ( Graminea . J 



Calix 2-valved, many-flowered. Spikelets 

 more or less ovate, without awns, valves 

 somewhat acute, discoloured, with scariose 

 margins. Nutt. 



annua. 1- P« panicle diffuse ; branches expanding at right 

 angles; spikelets obtuse, 5-flowered ; stem oblique 

 compressed. Sp. PL 



Icon. Host. gram. 2. t. 64. Lears. fl. hab. t. 6. f. 1. 

 (Pursh.) 



Annual Meadozv-grass* 



One of the commonest grasses every where ; in grass plots 

 abundant. Annual. Flowers from April till autumn. 



eomprcssa. 2. P. culm a foot high compressed, often oblique. 

 Leaves linear, carinated, nerved, smooth, bluish. 

 Ligula white, short ovate acute emarginate. 

 Sheath smooth. Panicle coarctate nearly erect, 

 glabrous. Branches of the panicle short in pairs ; 

 spikes terete, sessile, jointed at base. Calix 2- 

 valved, 3 — 8 flowered. Cor, 2-valved, margin 

 purplish, smooth and sub-villous at the base. 

 MuhL 

 Icon. Eng. Bot. 365. 



