10. GKAMINEiE. 54. Poa. 
103 
PL end . ph. 
Sandy shores ; perennial; July. 
Culm decumbent at bottom, 1 foot high, very smooth, 
round, leafy ; leaves involute, glaucous ; ligula obtuse ; 
panicle erect; peduncles slightly flexuous, first spreading, 
then erect becoming divaricated ; locus tee purplish. 
3. Poa distans. Loose-flowered meadow grass. 
Panicle equal, becoming divaricated ; fruit-bearing 
branches deflexed ; loeustee 4 to 6-flowered, roundish ; 
flow rets distant, very obtuse, obsoletely 5-ribbed ; culm 
ascending ; root fibrous. 
Aira aquatica Hudson FI. Angl. 34. 
Poa salina ? Pollich. vi. 89. 
Poa retroflexa, Curt. Lond. 6, 1, 
Poa distans, Lin. Munt. 32. 
Reflexed meadow-grass. 
Sandy fields near the sea ; perennial ; July. 
Culms many, 18 inches high, leafy, smooth; leaves 
longly sheathed, smooth, flat; radical leaves slightly in- 
volute ; ligula obtuse ; panicle erect ; locusta green, or 
green and purple: lower spalhelle 1-ribbed ; upper 3-ribbed. 
<3. glauca . Glaucous , very stiff. 
Salt marshes. 
b. Loeustee pubescent ; ligula truncated , or nearly wanting . 
4. Poa nemoralis . Grove meadow-grass . 
Panicle long, few-flowered, drooping; loeustee 2 or 
3-flowered, pale, ovate, small, as long as the glumes ; glumes 
acute ; glumelles acute, free, subvenose ; leaves flat, plaited 
at bottom; culm weak. 
Poa nemoralis, Lin. S. P. 102. 
Poa angustifolia j S, Huds. FI. Angl. 41. 
Poa nemoralis vulgaris, Gaudin Agr. Helv. 179. 
Woods; perennial; June. 
j Root slightly creeping, tufted; culm light green, 18 in. long, 
slender, smooth ; leaves flat, slender, base pleated ; sheaths 
shortish, smooth ; panicle slender ; peduncles in pairs or 
threes ; loeustee green ; spathelles nearly equal, very acute, 
3-ribbed. 
5. Poaflrmula . Stiffish meadow-grass , 
Panicle pyramidical, many-flowered, erect ; loeustee 2 or 
3-flowered, slightly coloured, ovate, longer than the glumes ; 
glumes acute ; glumelles acute, free, subvenose ; leaves flat, 
plaited at bottom ; culm firm. 
