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TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Poa. 
Alpine Meadow Grass. Inch Earn, north of Forfar. Mr. Mackay. FI. 
Brit. On Snowdon. Crib y Ddescil. Mr. Griffith. Malghyrdy, Bentes- 
kerny, and on Ben Lawers. Mr. Brown. Mr. Murphy finds Var. 2. on 
Benbulben, Sligo. E.) P. June—July.* 
(P. flexuo'sa. Panicle flexuose; spikets three flowered; glumes egg- 
shaped, connected by a web; leaf-scales all spear-shaped. 
E. Bot. 1123. 
Colour light, rather glaucous green. Stems ascend obliquely, often bent 
at the joints. Leaves spreading, narrow, sharp, roughish above, with 
long, lax, flattish sheaths. Panicle egg-shaped, rather dense, its stalks 
angular, zigzag, especially at the base. Spikets broad-egg-shaped, ra¬ 
ther glaucous. Calyx-glumes a little unequal, hardly falcate, acute, 
rough at the keel, white and thin at the edge, and stained with purple 
toward that part. Florets shaped and coloured much like the calyx, or 
rather less egg-shaped, margin smooth, not silky, keel rough, bases con¬ 
nected by long hairs. Inner glumes roiigh at the edge. 
Differs from P. alpina in its glaucous hue; straw more leafy, leaves nar¬ 
rower, more acute, and rough above; fruit-stalks more or less zigzag; 
glumes narrower, connected at the base by hairs. 
Zigzag Meadow Grass. P. jlexuosa. Sm. FI. Brit. P. laxa. Hoenke. 
Willd. Hook. Sm. Eng. FI. Discovered by Mr. John Mackay on Ben 
Nevis, in Scotland; growing in small tufts. P. July. FI. Brit. E.) 
P. bulbosa. Little spikes egg-shaped; florets rather smooth, acute; 
straw upright, bulbous at its base. Huds. 
( E. Bot. 1071. E .)—Vaill 17. 8. 
Panicle branched, the branches angular, rather rough. Little spikes egg- 
shaped, acute; with three, four, or five florets, a little hairy at the base. 
Huds. (The bulbs grow in clusters, resembling little onions, and during 
most part of summer remain blown about inactive. With the autumnal 
rains they vegetate, fix themselves by long downy radicles, then produce 
thick tufts of leaves ; and in April or May they flower. By these bulbs, 
the serrated leaves and the woolly web connecting the floret, added to 
the broad veinless glumes and small panicle, this species may be known 
with certainty. Sm. in E. Bot. E.) 
(Bulbous Meadow Grass. Meadows and pastures near Clapham, Surry. 
(Sandy ground near Yarmouth, Norfolk. Mr. Stone. Plentiful at Lowes¬ 
toft. Sir J. E. Smith. At Little Hampton, Sussex. Mr. W. Borrer. On 
the Steine at Brighton. Salisbury. E.) P. May.f 
P. annua. Panicles spreading horizontally; branches in pairs; spikets 
mostly four-flowered; (without a web; stems oblique, com¬ 
pressed. E.) 
Gram. Pasc.—Curt. 1. 2—( Hort . Gram. — E.Bot. 1141. E.)— StilUngf. 7— II. 
* (Not worthy the farmer’s particular attention. Hares and rabbits are remarkably 
fond of this grass. Hort. Gran). E.) 
j' (Mr. Turner observes (Bot. Guide), that this plant forms a principal part of the 
herbage of Yarmouth Denes, but that it withers very soon after flowering, and so early 
as in July no traces of stems or leaves are to be found. Mr. Salisbury considers that 
the bulbs are essentially requisite to nourish the plants, and to propagate the species in 
arid soils ; and such is their power of retaining vitality, that after having been preserved 
two years in paper, he has known them to vegetate. E.) 
