GRAMINA. 
Ill 
and reliable testimony. Rather local, but widely distributed in 
Ireland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer. 
Plant growing in small compound tufts with rather few stems in 
each individual tuft, 2 to 6 inches long. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long. 
Panicle 1 to 2^ inches long by i to }j inch broad. Spikelets green, 
rarely tinged with pale purple, ^ to | inch long. Florets about 
inch long. 
Plant with the habit of Triticum, but the spike is unilateral with a 
distinct back and a face, the spikelets are not quite sessile, and the 
lower panicle-branches are sometimes developed, though rarely above 
inch long exclusive of the terminal spikelet. 
Dwarf 3Ieadow- Grass. 
French, Gli/ceyie Ivraie. 
GENUS ///.— POA. Li?in. 
Spikelets stalked, arranged in a loose open or somewhat contracted 
panicle, laterally compressed, open during flowering, each containing 
2 to 8 perfect florets. Glumes 2, nearly equal, both shorter than the 
florets, not awned, usually both 3-ribbed, subherbaceous with scarious 
margins, rarely wholly subscarious. Pales 2, the lower one compressed, 
keeled, throughout entire, not awned, 3- to 5-ribbed, subherbaceous with 
scarious margins; upper pale 2 -cleft, 2 -ribbed. Lodicules 2, entire or 
bilobed. Stamens 3. Styles 2, terminal, very short ; stigmas plumose, 
protruded at the sides of the floret, between the basal margins of the 
pales. Caryops free, glabrous, elliptical, trigonous, faintly channelled 
on the inner face. 
The name of this genus of grasses is derived from the Greek word a grass. 
SPECIES I.— POA ANNUA. Lmn. 
Plate IMDCCLX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CLV. Figs. 387 and 388. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 93. 
Annual or biennial. No rootstock, stolons, or barren shoots. Stem 
ascending from a curved or geniculate and slender base which is some- 
times rooting at the knots, or procumbent, rather thick, weak ; the 
uppermost knot about one-third above the base.* Leaves thin, tlacci<l, 
