. The grasses of Tennessee; including cereals and forage plants. Grasses; Forage plants; Grain. IN TENNESSEE. 229. POA, L.â(Meadow Grass). Panicle of I'oa compressa, reduced in size (1); a magnified spikelets (2); a sepa- rate flower more magnified (3); a lower palet cut across and somewhat outspread (4), vate or lanceolate, laterally compressed, several; 2-10 flowered in an open panicle. Glumes mostly shorter â than the flowers; the lower smaller. Low- er palet membranaceous; herbaceous, with a delicate scarious, margin; compressed, keeled, pointless, 5 nerved, (the inter- mediate nerves more
. The grasses of Tennessee; including cereals and forage plants. Grasses; Forage plants; Grain. IN TENNESSEE. 229. POA, L.â(Meadow Grass). Panicle of I'oa compressa, reduced in size (1); a magnified spikelets (2); a sepa- rate flower more magnified (3); a lower palet cut across and somewhat outspread (4), vate or lanceolate, laterally compressed, several; 2-10 flowered in an open panicle. Glumes mostly shorter â than the flowers; the lower smaller. Low- er palet membranaceous; herbaceous, with a delicate scarious, margin; compressed, keeled, pointless, 5 nerved, (the inter- mediate nerves more obscure or obsolete), the principal nerves commonly clothed at and towa ds the base with soft hairs; upper palet membranaceous, 2, toothed ; base of the flower often cobwebby. Stamens 2-3. Stigmas simply plumose. Grain oblong, free. Culms tufted from perennial roots, except Poa annua. Leaves smooth, usually flat and soft. The softness and greater roundness of the spikelets, the absence of bristle awned tips, the open pyramidal panicle give this genus a habit which distinguishes it readily from the allied genus Festuca. Besides the species formerly described with the cultivated grasses, there remain to mention: POA ALSODE .', Grayâ (Leafy Meadow Grass.) The uppermost leaves often sheathing the capillary branches of the loose panicle, which generally stands in threes or fourB. Lower palet very obscurely nerved, villose on the keel below. Woods. Mowers in April and May. It is a scattered growing grass. POA SYIiVESTBIS, GT&y-(Sylvan Meadow Grass.) Spikelets very small, loosely 2-4. flowered. Culms flatish, erect; branches of the oblong pyramidal panicle short, numerous, in fives or more. A very light and tender grass, growing scattered through the woods. May. POA DEBILIS, Torreyâ (Weak Meadow Grass). Panicle loose, few flowered, somewhat spreading; the branches mostly in pairs, flexuous, a little rough; spikelets ovate, obtuse, 3 flowered; the flowers webbed at the base, s
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