. British grasses : an introduction to the study of the Gramineae of Great Britain and Ireland. Grasses. 264 BRITISH GRASSES. It flowers in July and ripens its seed in August. This Poa is not remarkable for beauty, and we are not aware of it having any agricultural value or of any especial interest attaching to it. P. maritima, var. hispida, has a compressed stem, a furrow along one side of the rachis, and its branches rough with small bristles. Mr. Babington gathered this grass in Suffolk, and identified it with the Scle- rochloa of Fries. He calls it the " Hough Sea Meadow- ;
. British grasses : an introduction to the study of the Gramineae of Great Britain and Ireland. Grasses. 264 BRITISH GRASSES. It flowers in July and ripens its seed in August. This Poa is not remarkable for beauty, and we are not aware of it having any agricultural value or of any especial interest attaching to it. P. maritima, var. hispida, has a compressed stem, a furrow along one side of the rachis, and its branches rough with small bristles. Mr. Babington gathered this grass in Suffolk, and identified it with the Scle- rochloa of Fries. He calls it the " Hough Sea Meadow- ;. 4. Poa distans, Linn. Refiexed Poa. Boot perennial, fibrous; stems scaly, decumbent at the base, striated, smooth, about a foot high, numerous, slender; .eaves flat, glaucous, acute, seldom folded; sheaths long; jgule blunt, emarginate; panicle branched, spreading, erect; the branches slender, rough, placed at certain distances on the rachis in pairs or threes, of various length, the lower ones bending downwards more and more decidedly as they increase in age; spikelets small, containing five florets, the summit of the lowest floret extending considerably beyond the outer glume; outer glumes three-ribbed, small; flower- ing glumes five-ribbed, larger, the central rib not reaching the summit; palea small. The Reflexed Poa resembles the last species in general. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Plues, Margaret. London : Reeve & co.
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