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POA glauca.
Slender Glaucous Meadow-grass.
TRIANDRIA Digynia.
G en. Char. Cal. of 2 valves, containing many florets.
Spihelet rounded at the base. Cor. of 2 ovate,
pointed, beardless valves.
Spec. Char. Panicle glaucous, slender, erect. Spikelets
ovate, o f about three flowers. Glumes bluntish,
silky-edged, unconnected by any web. Stipula very
short.
Syn. Poa glauca. FI. Dan. t. 964. With. 148. Sm.
FI. Brit. 1388. Hull. 23.
P . cæsia. Knapp, t. 5 6 .
P. n. 1468. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 224. Lachenal.
Gramen paniculatum angustifolium montanum, pa-
niculâ densâ, locustis parvis muticis. Scheuchz.
Agr. 180.
T H E Poa glauca of Withering has been communicated to
me by Mr. Griffith, the original authority for it in Britain, who
found it on Snowdon, and I have no doubt of the correctness
of the above synonyms. The specimen in the plate grew in
Chelsea garden, and came from Scotland. It is perennial,
flowering in June.
The whole plant is very glaucous, the glumes variegated
with purple and white, and marked with rows of silvery hairs,
as in P. cæsia ; but the florets are commonly only two, rarely
three, in each calyx, and they are also more angular than those
of that species. In this last respect they approach P.nemoralis,
to which the slenderness of the whole plant is, in some degree,
similar. The stipula is al ways small ; leaves narrow,
with somewhat inflated sheaths. Florets without any complicated
web at their base.