The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Poa (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 171, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

P. fiabellata (fan-shaped). fl., spikelets compressed, about five-flowered; glumes sub-equal; paleae unequal, the outer ones acuminate, somewhat awned; panicle oblong, dense, compressed. l. highly glabrous, convolute, acute, rigid; lower ones flabellate, distichous. Falkland Island, Cape Horn, &c. SYNS. Dactylis coespitosa (R. G. 1194, 1197), Festuca fiabellata.

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