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ENGLISH BOTANY. 
The bulbs remain when the plant is subjected to pot culture. They 
divide like shallots, and the cloves afterwards usually become more or 
less evidently stalked. 
Bulbous 3feadotv- Grass. 
FrcncTi, Paf,i,-in li>]h,-i,.r. German, Zu-;rl.i:,iPR nisprurim.^. 
8PECTES TII.~POA ALPINA. f^ivn. 
Plate MDCCLXIL 
F.'Irh. To. Fl. Crevm. et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CLVI. F,\crs. 002 and r,;":?. 
JiiUof, Fl. Gfill. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1380. 
Perennial. Rootstock thick, shortly creepinfr, usually without 
festival leafy barren shoots or stolons, with subsolitary flowerinijr 
stems. Flowerinor stems erect, often from a curved base which is 
swollen into a cylindrical bulb, with the outer sheaths fibrous, slender^ 
rather wiry, prenerally bent at the knots, the uppermost knot about 
one-third or one-fourth above the base. Leaves at the base of the 
-Howerin^r stem thick, firm, broadly linear, nearly flat, abruptly pointed 
and IuxhUhI at the apex, green, slightly glaucous ; stem leaves ex- 
tremely shoi*t, channelled, and more h(joded at the apex than the 
radical ones ; sheaths smooth, ancipitate ; ligule very prominent, 
oblong-lanceolate, truncate and erose. Panicle erect, nearly equal, or 
somewhat distichously unilateral, deltoid-ovoid in flower, rhombic- 
ovoid in fruit, rather dense. Panicle-branches 1 to 8 at the lowest 
nodes of the rachis, but generally 2, unequal, the longer ones bare of 
spikelets and unbranched at the base for from one-third to one-half 
their length, spreading in flower, erect-ascending or ascending in fruit, 
slightly rough. {Spikelets ovate, 2- to G-fiowercd, usually 4- or 
Tvflowered. Florets not connected at the base by arachnoid hairs, 
riluniesboth 3-ribbed, or the lower one 1-ribbed. Lower pale acuini- 
nare and acute, indistinctly o-ribhed, with the midrib and marginal 
ribs silky-hairy in the lower two-thirds, green, often more or less suf- 
fused with purple, broadly brf)wni5h-white and scarious at the apex. 
Among rocky dt'bri.s, on ledges of rock, and in grassy places on 
mountains. Frequent. Snowdon, Carnarvon; Ingleborough, York- 
>hire; and in the Lake di.•^trict. Common in the Scotch Highlands, 
reacliing to Sutherland. Kerry and Sligo, Ireland, 
^i-otland. Ireland. Perennial, Summer. 
- Iiigh, generally solitary, rnrely more than 2 in 
f.y the fibrous remains of dt^cayed leafsheaths 
lie bulb somewhat of tlie appearance of Llovdia 
