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ENGLISH BOTANY. 
rather broadly linear, flat, abruptly pointed and hooded at the apex, 
bright green; sheaths smooth, strongly ancipitate, none of them dilated, 
the uppermost one longer than its leaf ; ligule very prominent, oblong, 
obtuse or truncate. Panicle erect, more or less distichously unilateral, 
deltoid or deltoid-triangular in outline, lax. Panicle-branches from 1 
to 4 at the lower nodes of the rachis, but generally 2, unequal, the longer 
ones bare of spikelets and unbranched at the base for from one-third to 
half their length, spreading-ascending in flower, spreading or ascending- 
spreading in fruit, smooth. Spikelets ovate-lanceolate, 2 - to 6-flowered, 
usually 4- or 5-fiowered. Florets not connected at the base by arach- 
noid hairs. Lower glume 1-ribbed, the upper 3-ribbed. Lower pale 
green rarely suff*used with purple, broadly white and scarious at the 
apex, with or without a red or purphsh line between the green and 
white, subacute, faintly 5 -ribbed, with the ribs more or less silky-hairy 
towards the base. 
In waste places, cultivated ground, roadsides, meadows, &c.; ex- 
tremely common, and universally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or biennial. Spring to Winter. 
Stems 2 to 18 inches long. Leaves 1 to 6 inches by y\- to i inch. 
Panicle a to 4 inches. Spikelets J- to \ inch. Florets I inch. ' 
A species usually easily recognised by its fibrous root without any 
rootstock, though sometimes (especially in cultivated ground) where 
the stems have been buried, they root and put on the appearance 
of a rootstock. The whole plant is much softer and less rigid than 
any other species of the germs. The leaves are often crimped at the 
edges. 
P. supina, SrhracL is said to be a mountain form with highly 
coloured spikelets, but I have noi seen specimens. 
French, F,ttuniL inmnd. German, ,u>,]dhri'j-s Rhiwnfjras. 
This grass is the most common species to be found on way-sides and hedtres, and 
-Tcnvg abundantly in most pastures. Though called annual it is mostly biennial, 
i-^ capable of ^^^^^ prodactive turf. On most land it will 
SPECIES IL—POA BULB OS A. Linn. 
Plate MUCCr.XI. 
7?'">/^. Tc. Fl. Germ^ et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CLIV. Figs. S^o and ;].st'. 
Perennial. Rootrstock slender, not creeping, ctespitose, with very 
numtnj?i.-5 and ver\- short subcrect slender stolons tenninatiiiir in short 
