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ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Sub-species I.— Poa Stricta. LlMcrr,. 
Tlate MDCCLXIII. 
Fne.^, Herb. Norm. F;isc. xv. No. 04. 
Poa laxa, Il<ih. Man. IJvit. Bot. eil. vi. p. 413. 
Poa laxa var. vivlnara, A.i.h^,:^.'^. Gram. Scand. p. 43. 
Rootstock sliortly creeping, somewhat oblique, ca^spitose at the 
apex. Stems firm, strai^dit. Leaves fiat, n-radually taperin<T to the 
apex, not hooded; uppermost sheath 2 to 4 times longer than its 
leaf; ligules all elongate. Panicle open in flower and more so after- 
wards. Panicle-branches slender, diverging in flower, afterwards 
spreading. Spikelets ovate, 2- to 3-fIowered, always (?) viviparous. 
Florets scarcely connected by arachnoid hairs. Lower pale some- 
wliat acuminate and acute, dark pur[)le, narrowly green on the keel, 
witli rather narrow brownish-white margins. 
On rocky debris and damp ledges of rocks, on high mountains, very 
rare. Loch-na-gar, Aberdeen, where 1 have gathered it on the rocky 
debris under the south-east coi-ner of the great precipice, and on 
rorcks in the corrie of Lochan-an-ean. Ben Nevis, Inverness, Prof. 
Babington ! 
Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 
Plant growing in tufts containing 2 to 12 flowering stems from 
3 inches to 1 foot high. Longest leaves 1.', to 4 inches long, uppermost 
stem leaf ^ to 2 inches lonir.' Panicle 1 to 2.', inches long, resembling 
tliat of P. alpina, but always slightly droo[)ing at the apex. Spikelets 
l hich long. Florets about l incli,"alm(;.>t all viviparous and the few 
which are not so appear to produce no seed. Anthers inch long. 
Professor P>abington considers tin's as the typical 1\ laxa of Hilnkc. 
This is very doubiful. as l\ stricta is confineff to the northern parts of 
Kurope. Scotland, and Norway, and is not known to occur in the 
Alps of Soutliern Europe. 
Stn<n:ht-Sh unsi, J Jl a I<w-( Ira.s^s. 
(?) Scn-SpEciEs II.— Foa en-laxa. 
Plate MDCCLXIY. 
! i-a. var. nxhior IL.,.],. /;7 
RoAt=,r..ek not ..t all 
