ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES v.— POA GLAUCA. Smith. 
Plates MDCCLV. MDCCLXVI. MDCCLXYH. 
P. nemoralis, var. glauca, HooJcfil. Stud. Fl. p. 43. non Koch. 
Eootstock slender, more or less shortly creeping, vnth. solitary or 
few or numerous flowering stems, not stoloniferous, or with very 
short autumnal stolons, without osstival leafy barren shoots. Stems 
erect, usually from a curved base, not swoUen at the base, glaucous ; 
the uppermost knot rarely higher than from one -sixth or one-third 
above the base, rarely near the middle of the stem. Leaves linear, 
parallel-sided and abruptly pointed and hooded, or narrowly linear, 
tapering towards the apex and gradually pointed and hooded, glaucous, 
often intensely so ; sheaths smooth or nearly so, compressed and 
ancipitate, the uppermost one as long as or a little longer than its 
leaf ; ligule rather prominent, quadrate or a little broader than long, 
truncate. Panicle erect, distichously- unilateral, more rarely nearly 
equal and slightly drooping at the apex, triangular in flower and 
afterwards, or rhombic-ovoid in flower and hnear afterwards, lax. 
Panicle-branches 1 to 5 at the lowest nodes of the rachis, but 
generally 2, the longest ones unbranched and bare of spikelets at the 
base for from one-third to half their length, spreading in flower and 
sometimes in fruit, but more often erect and adpressed in fruit, more 
or less scabrous. Spikelets ovate-oblong or elliptical-lanceolate, 2- to 
6-flowered. Glumes both 3-ribbed. Florets free, or more or less 
connected at the base by arachnoid hairs. Lower pale subacute or 
subobtuse, obsoletely 5-ribbed, with the midribs and marginal-ribs 
silky-hairy at the base or in the lower half, glaucous-green, more or 
less sufi'used with purple, with a reddish-brown blotch near the apex, 
and narrow white scarious margins. 
Si-B-SrEci£3 I.— Poa CffiSia. Smiih. 
Plate MDCCLXY. 
- :;th, Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1710. non AUomm. 
P. gkaca, vai-. p. lS>a. Engl. Fi. Vol. 1. p. 128. 
Densely cajspitose. Rootstock scarcely creeping. Flowering stems 
numerous, ascending, generally curved throughout, decumbent at the 
base, rather stout, rigid, smooth (except underneath the panicle), in- 
tensely glaucous ; the uppermost knot one-third to one-fourth above the 
base. Leaves broadly linear, parallel- sided, abruptly acuminate and 
greatly hooded or rather boat-shaped at the upex, intensely glaucous; 
