. Bulletin. Agriculture. 20 THE SEEDS OF THE BLUEGRASSES. Poa nemoralis L. WOOD MEADOW GRASS. Spikelets 2 or 3 flowered; florets 22-3 mm. long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, mostly acute at the apex, light brown, sometimes yellowish tinged near the apex; glume rather broadly keeled and somewhat arched at the back; margins of the glume narrowly infolded quite to the apex or hyaline-edged and often flaring above the middle; intermediate veins very indistinct;" keel and marginal veins silky pubescent below the middle; basal web slight; surface between the veins glabrous; palea nearly equal
. Bulletin. Agriculture. 20 THE SEEDS OF THE BLUEGRASSES. Poa nemoralis L. WOOD MEADOW GRASS. Spikelets 2 or 3 flowered; florets 22-3 mm. long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, mostly acute at the apex, light brown, sometimes yellowish tinged near the apex; glume rather broadly keeled and somewhat arched at the back; margins of the glume narrowly infolded quite to the apex or hyaline-edged and often flaring above the middle; intermediate veins very indistinct;" keel and marginal veins silky pubescent below the middle; basal web slight; surface between the veins glabrous; palea nearly equal to the glume, evidently shorter in florets having a flaring apex, its keels hispid-ciliate and usually covered by the margins of the glume; rachilla segment varying from one-fourth to three-fourths of the length of the glume, the sterile rachilla segment very uniformly much longer than the others, more or less appressed pubescent, the pubescence somewhat variable and sometimes nearly want- ing; aborted floret of the sterile rachilla segment often one-half as long as the seg- ment; grain Ij mm. long, rather slender, semitranslucent. (Fig. 7.). 7 3 % i. 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 United States. Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington : G. P. O.
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