106 54. Poa. 10. GR AMINEVS. Pl.end.ph. 
Root fibrous; culm 12 in. high, erect, smooth, round ; 
leaves short, flat; radical very slender, convolute; upper- 
most very short ; sheaths very long, smooth, angular ; pa - 
nicies slender, spreading before flowering, and afterwards 
contracted ; peduncles usually in pairs, rarely solitary or 
ternate ; loeustee glaucous, purple and white, large. 
? jS. vivipara. Viviparous , panicle large; sheaths roughish. 
Poa ciispa, Thuil. Paris. 45. 
Poa prolifera, Schmidt in Mayer Plujs. Sam. 1, 188. 
May, June. 
e. Loeustee pubescent ; glumes connected at the base with 
wool ; peduncles in pairs ; culm not bulbose. 
1 1 . Poa laxa. Loose meadow-grass. 
Panicle subracemose ; apex drooping, flexuous ; pe- 
duncles few-flowered ; loeustee broad, ovate, pubescent, 2 or 
3-flowered ; spathelles free or connected ; ligula long, acute ; 
culm erect, compressed ; root fibrous. 
Poa laxa, Willd. S. PI. 1,386. 
Poa flexuosa, Smith Flor. Brit. 99. 
Poa elegans, De Cand. FI. Fr. 1615. 
Alpine mountains ; perennial ; July. 
Root tufted ; culm many, smooth, 6 in. high, slightly 
glaucous ; leaves flat, slender, acute ; sheaths long, dilated 
below, very smooth, coloured ; panicle contracted ; loeustee 
broad, oval, green, white, and violet ; glumes nearly as long 
as the flowrets. 
0, vivipara. Flowrets viviparous ; loeustee 2-flowered. 
12. Poa compressa. Squeezed meadow-grass . 
Panicle contracted, 1 -sided; peduncles many-flowered, 
ligula short, very obtuse ; loeustee lanceolate, 3 to 9-flowered, 
pubescent ; spathelles connected ; culm ascending, com- 
pressed ; root creeping. 
Grarnen pratense paniculatum medium Tournefort, Rail Syn. 409, 5. 
Poa compressa, Lin. S. P. 101. 
Poa muralis, Web. Werth. 114. 
Walls and dry pastures; perennial; July, August. 
Root jointed ; culm rooting, leafy, erect above, naked ; 
leaves flat, short, rather glaucous ; sheaths smooth, 2-edged ; 
ligula exserted ; panicle oblong ; peduncles sometimes semi- 
verticillate, branchy, short; loeustee. green and purple. 
p. erecta. Culm erect; panicle large, very branchy. 
Gardens. 
