2916.
POA Parnellii.
Parnell’s Meadow Grass.
TRIANDRIA Digynia.
Gen. Char. Spikelets of two or more florets. Glumes
rather unequal, mostly shorter than the lowest
floret. Outer Palea with three or five nerves,
membranous below, scarious at the tip, compressed,
keeled, unarmed. Style terminal, very
short. Stigmas protruded from the base of the
floret.:
Spec. Char. Panicle erect, large, rather close, Ob'-
long. Spikelets ovate. Florets two or three,
acute, not webbed; outer palea with five nerves,
the dorsal and marginal hairy. Upper sheath
generally longer than its leaf; ligule very short
and truncate. Upper joint at about the middle
of the stem and exposed.
S yn. Poa Parnellii. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. 368,
Pam. Brit. Grasses, 210. t. 93.
A CAREFUL study of the more obscure tribes of British
plants has already brought to light many well-marked species
which had escaped the notice of former botanists. In the extensive
order Graminece, to which the subject of this plate
belongs, we are under great obligations to Dr. Richard Parnell,
to whose honour the species now before* us is dedicated.
His work quoted above is an invaluable contribution to our
knowledge of Grasses.
Poa Parnellii inhabits the limestone district of Upper Tees-
dale, which divides the counties of Durham and York. It is
found near to the river Tees, from the Caldron Snout to near
the Winch Bridge, but is more especially plentiful at the fine