10. GRAMINEJE. 54. Poa. 
105 
PL end,ph. 
Fields, pastures, and roadsides ; annual ; all the year. 
Culm ascending, 9 in. long, leafy; leaves 2-rowed, spread- 
ing, flat, flaccid, obtuse ; sheaths light green, compressed ; 
panicle erect, smooth ; peduncles slightly branched ; locustce 
compressed, white and green, with short, footstalks ; spa ^ 
thelles carinate, acute, edge scariose, upper 3-ribbed, lower 
1-ribbed; outer spathellule 5-ribbed, obtuse, edge scariose. 
|3. rubra . Locus Ice variegated with purple, white, and 
green. 
y. vivipara. Panicle viviparous. 
& crispa. Leaves transversely crisp and waved. 
9. Poa alpina. Alpine meadow-grass . 
Panicle equal, diffused ; peduncles in pairs, many-flowered; 
locus tee ovate, 5 or 6-flowered ; lower ligulce truncated, very 
short; upper lanceolate; culm round, ascending, shining; 
root fibrous, perennial. 
Poa pratense /3, Huds. FI. Angl. 39. 
Poa brizoides, Wohllenb. Suppl. 5. 
Poa Alpina, Lin. S P . 99. 
Poa Badensis. Willd. Sp. PL 92. 
Poa glomerata, Knapp Gram. 
Alpine meadows ; perennial; July. 
Culm 18 in. high, erect, with 2 or 3 knots, naked above, 
purple ; radical leaves many, spreading, flat, glaucous be- 
neath, obtuse ; sheaths short ; stem leaves 2 or 3, short ; 
sheaths very long; panicle broad, short, roundish; locustce 
compressed, green, violet, and yellow; lower spathelle 
3-ribbed ; outer spathellule obsoletely 5-ribbed, acute; 
edge scariose. 
vivipara. S pikelet vegetating. 
Poa vivipara, Lin. S. P. 99, 
%? glomerata. Tall; leaves long, flaccid; panicle clus- 
tered, many-flowered ; locustce pubescent. 
d. Glumelle connected at the base with wool ; culm 
bulbose at the base. 
10. Poa bulbosa. Bulbose meadow-grass. 
Panicle ovate, almost 1-sided; peduncles mostly in pairs; 
locustce ovate, lanceolate, turgid, 4 or 5-fiowered ; ligula 
elongated, acute ; culm bulbose at bottom. 
Poa bulbosa, Lin. S. P 102, « et y. 
Sandy fields and pastures near the sea ; peren.; Apr. May. 
