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WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 



few and short radical leaves. Culm 9 -IS inches long, often procumbent and radicating 

 at base. Leaves 2 or 3 - [> or 6 inches long, linear, keeled, roughisli near the end, and 



Fig. 260. Common Meadow-Grass (Poa pratensis). 261. A spikelet. 262. A pistil 

 removed from the paleae, showing the scales at the base of the ovary. 



