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TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Briza. 
(Glaucous Meadow Grass. E.) Mountains in the north of England, 
Scotland, and Wales. P. June—July.* 
Var. 2. Leaves broader; florets four or five. 
E. Bot. 1719. 
P. coesia. Sm. FI. Brit. Hook. On Ben Lawers, and other Highland 
mountains. Sm. E.) 
(In addition to the preceding species of Poa, Prof. Hooker records (from 
the report of Messrs. Don) P. stricta. Panicle branched, spikets of three 
flowers, ovate ; cal. glumes, lanceolate, three-nerved, nearly equal, mu- 
cronated, keeled; florets five-nerved, truncated at the apex, villous at the 
base. Pastures in Angus-shire. P. leptostachya. Panicle contracted, 
somewhat racemed ; pedicels very short, glabrous ; spikets, two-flower¬ 
ed; cal. glumes lanceolate mucronate, equal, three-nerved, incurved 
at the extremity ; florets lanceolate, rather acute at the point. Banks of 
the Tay west of Dundee. Said to be totally distinct from any other 
'British Poa. To these novelties we would attract the attention of 
northern tourists. E.) 
(TRICVDIA.f Bloss. orbicular, expanded, obscurely ribbed, 
deeply cloven, with an intermediate point; both valves 
concave. Seed loose, depressed. R.) 
(T. decum'bens. Panicle nearly simple, close, erect : florets four, 
their middle tooth shortest: calyx smooth : stipula hairy. Sm. 
Picks . H. S. — E. Bot. 792 — El. Pan. 162 — Leers 7. 5 — Pluk. 34. 1— 
H. Ox. viii. 1. 6 — Mont. 2. 1 — Scheuch. 3. 16. A , B, C. 
Whole plant harsh and rigid, lying close to the ground except when in 
flower. Stem twelve to eighteen inches long, jointed, very smooth. 
Leaves striated, rather glaucous, rough towards the points. Sheaths 
hairy, especially at the top. Panicle of a few large, turgid, purplish 
spikelets, its branches few, wavy. Bloss. has two, or more, dense tufts 
of shining bristles at its base, with two intermediate depressions. Mid¬ 
dle tooth not extended into a bristly awn. Sm. Habit very different 
from Poa. Hook. 
Decumbent Heath Grass. Welsh: Gweiinwellt goirweiddiog FestUca 
dtcumbens. Linn. Huds. Dicks. Willd. Poa decumbens . With. Sm. FI. 
Brit. Schrad. Hook. T. decumbens. Br. Sm. Eng. FI. In bogs, or 
barren moist pastures, not unfrequent. Toxteth Park, near Liverpool. 
Dr. Bostock. In Norfolk and Suffolk frequent. , t Mr, Woodward. On 
Gateshead Fell, and on Newcastle Town Moor. Mr. Winch. Braid and 
Pentland Hills. Grev. Edin. E.) P. Aug.J 
BRFZA.II Cal. two-valved, many-flowered. Spiket two-rowed 
(Bloss. ventricose; E.) valves heart-shaped, blunt, the 
inner minute. (Seed depressed, attached to the blos¬ 
som. E.) 
B. mI'nor. Spikets triangular : calyx longer than the florets. 
* (A grass of inferior merit, not to be recommended to agriculturists. Hort. Gram. E.) 
t (From rpet;, rpia, and ofovg, a tooth; alluding to the three teeth of the blossom. E.) 
$ (But little susceptible of improvement. It is late in the production of its foilage, 
and yields little after-grass. Hort. Gram. E.) 
|| .(From Bpi#*>, to nod ; alluding to the pendulous or nutant position of the blossoms. 
