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16. Poa an gust i folia. Narrow-leaved meadow-grass. 
Panicle pyramklical, very spreading; locustce ovate, 3 or 
4-flowered, slightly coloured; radical leaves very long, 
slender, roughish ; culm and sheaths smooth ; ligula short, 
truncated ; root creeping. 
Poa ang-jsrifolia, Lin. S. P. 99. 
Poapratense angustifoiia, Gaud. Agr. Helv. 214. 
Poa pratense /S, Smith Flor. Brit. 105. 
Fields and meadows; perennial; May and June. 
Culm erect, smooth, 18 inches high; radical leaves 2 or 
3-bundled, flat, very slender, long; stem leaves short, broad, 
both light green; panicle becoming divaricated, smaller 
than poa pratensis ; spathelle green, or green and white. 
17. Poa strigosa, Stiff meadow-grass. 
Panicle contracted, almost, spike-shdped ; locustce ovate, 
3-flowered, coloured; leaves slender, glaucous, becoming 
convolute; sheath and culm smooth; ligula short, trun- 
cated ; root creeping. 
Poa strigosa, Hoff. Germ. 111,44, 
Poa angustifoiia, Poinet Enel. Metli. 5, 72. 
Poa pratensis strigosa. Gaud. Agras. Helv. 214. 
Dry sandy places; perennial; May, June. 
Culm 3 feet high ; radical leaves very slender, setaceous, 
involute ; culm broad, involute, all glaucous ; panicle 
strigose. 
18. Poa humilis. Dwarf meadow-grass. 
Panicle diffused; locustcB ovate, 3-flowered, glaucous; 
leaves flat, expanding, glaucous, smooth ; sheaths and culms 
smooth, glaucous; ligula short, truncated; root creeping; 
glumes acute. 
Poa humilis, Ehr. Gram. 115. 
Foa subcaerulea, Eng. Bot. 1004. 
Poa c?e ru lea, Knapp. 118. 
Poa pratensis alpiua, Huds. FI. Ang. 39. 
Poa alpina y, Wiihl. Sp. PI. 1,386. 
Mountainous pastures; perenial; June. 
Plant glaucous, purple; culm 8 in. high, ascending, 
naked above; leaves short, straight; sheaths long, com- 
pressed ; locustce broad, ovate ; spathelles green, apex 
purple; glume lies white, purple, and green. 
