Poa Procumbens. Procumbent Meadow-Grass. 
POA. Linn. Gen. P /. Triandria Digynia. 
Cal. 2 -valvis multiflorus. Spicula ovatse, valvis margine fcariofis acutiufculis. 
Raii Syn. Gcn. 27. Herb.e gr aminifolial, flore imperfecto culmifer^e. 
POA procumbens culmis inflexo-procufnbentibus, panicula fecunda rigida ; fpiculis fublinearibus, 
fubquinquefloris ; flofculis obtufis bafl pilofis. 
RADIX perennis, fibrofa. $ ROOT perennial, and fibrous. 
CULMI plures, palmares, femipedales et ultra, bi, 6 STEMS many, from four to fix inches or more in 
trinodes, plerumque procumbentes, foliofi, ( 
lseves, fuperne comprelfi. 
FOLIA glauca, brevia, lineas duas lata, lineata, ad 
lentem punftis diaphanis fubafperis confertis 
utrinque adfperfa, margine minutiflime fer- 
rulata ; Ligula brevis, amplexicaulis, alba, 
acutiufcula ; Vagina foliorum intus nitida, 
extus fuperficies eadem ut in foliis. 
FLORES paniculati. 
PANICULA fubbiuncialis, rigida, fubovata, deorfum 
fubinde flexa, fubfecunda, rauiofa, famis bi- 
natis inaequalibus, exteriore majore, fpicula 
fimplici in ramis inferioribus plerumque me- 
dio inter ramos pofita, in fpeciminibus minus 
luxuriantibus fpicula locum ramuli - obtinet. 
length, having two or three joints, for the 
moft part procumbent, leafy, fmooth, flattened 
towards the panicle. 
LEAVES glaucous, fhort, two lines broad, fcored, 
when viewed with a magnifier appearing to 
be thickly covered with roughifh tranfparent 
dots, the edge very minutely fawed ; Mem- 
brane fhort, embracing the ftalk, white, fome- 
what pointed ; Sheath of the leaves glofly on 
the infide, the furface on the outfide the 
fame as that of the leaves. 
FLOWERS in a panicle. 
PANICLE about two inches long, rigid, fomewhat 
ovate, and now and then bent a little back- 
wards, turning chiefly to one fide, branched, 
the branches growing in pairs, unequal, the 
outer one largeft, in the lower branches a 
Angle fpicula is moft commonly placed in the 
middle betwixt them, in impoverilhed fpeci- 
0 mens a fpicula often holds the place of a branch. 
PEDUNCULI communes, teretes, nudi, flexuofi, fub- \ PEDUNCLES : the common peduncles round, naked, 
ftantia glandulofa ad bafin fuperne notata. a crooked, marked at the bafe on the upper 
x fide with a glandular kind of fubftance. 
RACHIS teres, Levis, interne bifulca. I RACHIS round, fmooth, with two grooves on the 
9 infide. 
SPICULkE in ramis majoribus fex circiter, in minori- 9 SPICUL.E in the larger branches about fix in number. 
in the fmaller ones four, feffile, containing 
Y about five flowers, fomewhat linear, roundifh, 
X flightly flattened, placed at equal diftances 
(| from each other. 
9 FLORETS obtufe, hairy at the bafe. 
0 CALYX : a Glume of two valves, the valves unequal, 
Q green, edged with white, and fomewhat 
Y blunt, Jig-, i. 
X COROLLA : a Glume of two valves, the valves fome- 
nt what equal, the outer one largeft and five- 
a ribbed, the inner one narroweft and two- 
9 ribbed, the ribs edged with hairs. Jig. 2. 
9 STAMINA: three capillary Filaments; Anthers 
< 1 oblong, and yellow, fig. 3. 
§ PISTILLUM: Germen obovate, of a pale green 
X colour ; Styles two, fpreading and ramified 
a quite to the bafe, Jig. 5. 
0 NECTARY : two fmall tranfparent Glumes, tumid and 
9 flefhy at the bafe, a little longer than the 
$ germen, fig. 4. 
§ SEED oblong, fmooth, enclo'fed in the glumes, fig. 6. 
bus quatuor, Miles, fubquinquefloras, fub- 
lineares, compreflb-teretiufcula:, Eequidiftantes. 
FLOSCULI obtufi, ad bafin pilofi. 
CALYX : Gluma bivalvis, valvulis inasqualibus, viridi- 
bus, albo marginatis, obtufiufculis. Jig. 1. 
COROLLA : Gluma bivalvis, valvis fubsequalibus, ex- 
teriore majore quinquenervi, interiore anguf- 
tiore binerve, nervis ciliatis, fig. 2. 
STAMINA: Filamenta tria capillaria; Anthers 
oblonga?, flava?, fig. 3. • ■ 
PISTILLUM: Germen obovatum, pallide virens; 
Styli duo, patentes ad bafin ufque ramofi, 
fig . 5. 
NECTARIUM : Glumula duse, diapbanae, bafi tumi- 
dae carnofte, germine paulo longiores, fig. 4- 
SEMEN oblongum, laeve, glumis dnclufum, fig. 6 . 
In the Autumn of lyqu, having occafion to be at Briftol, I fpent great part of a day in examining the plants 
to any grafs I had been accuftome • » r - t t 0 l ud t ^ e 0ll i y roo t there was, and gathered the 
flattering myfelf that tt might turn out to be a a w f e^ X next felon it flowered with me, 
Sd^e^ 
weaknefs of the ifalk, but from its being bent downwax the ‘E "of *is plantis of a glaucous hue, and, if 
on, fome of them are frequently found ^ar y up^ght^ h pa ? t icles of a ftlvery hue ; the panicle 
examined with a magnifier s found to be r ; i , re much ) on ver, lefs flat, and more regularly 
» -eater devree of ngld.lv than that of Poa annua, the ip.culm mucn ^ „ u . man ° olh g s 
has a greater degree of rigidity than that of Poa annua, the Ip.cuUe are mucn longe, 
diftant from eacfl other, -and each floret is iiliated « Hr bafi ; fuch are the molt Ob 
may be difcovered from an attention to the delcnption. delaved publilhinir this account, hoping 
of the Flora Londinenfis, which in many points has 
that it might be round more aDunuan 
difcovery fortunately prefented itfelf. 
Sir Thomas Frankland, an early and warm e ^°^ ra »!: r ' fi 1 Clifton (where he then was on a vifit) 
been improved by his friendly and judicious to him, and enclofing a 
fome feeds and fpecimens of plants gathered nea P ’ Q r t h e f ame month I received a letter from him, 
fpecimen of my Poa, requefted him to fearch or 1 * “ . Lfirable information: “ I had fortunately noticed 
containing fpecimens of the fame grafs, with e g p i enty ; n the inundated parts of the wafte 
“ the grafs you endofed m your rigid», its habit was new to me, and I 
“ ground weft of the wet docK, below Clifton , Qi r Thomas informs me that he had found the 
« fuppofed it a variety of that grafs." In a letter a ^ e have Sly bee n inf™mS! that it has been found 
fame grafs abundantly on the Pier at Scarborough ; and we have latei) 
on the Effex Coaft. . . readilv from feed, and flowers during moft of the 
SuuutierT Tm rS have, as in i*. *** young (hoots and ripe feeds. 
