Crossword-Solution: POA 3 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Kentucky blue grass, a species of grass (Poa pratensis) which has running rootstocks and spreads rapidly.

Linnaeus gave to this plant the name Poa bulbosa--a name that sufficed, according to the new system, to distinguish this from every other species of vegetable.

Let us look to one continent alone, namely, Africa: Barth[6] states that the slaves over a large part of the central region regularly collect the seeds of a wild grass, the _Pennisetum distichum_; in another district he saw women collecting the seeds of a Poa by swinging a sort of basket through the rich meadow-land.

Among the second are these: Medicago lupulina, or nonesuch; Trifolium repens, or white clover; Lathyrus pratensis, or meadow lathyrus; Capsella bursa pastoris, or shepherd's purse; Vicia peregrina, or broad-podded vetch; Convolvulus arvensis, or small bindweed; Pterotheca nemausensis, a sort of hawkweed; and Poa pratensis, or smooth-stalked meadow-grass.

Bonpland and myself on the cold table-lands of Mexico, along the burning shores of the Orinoco, and in the southern hemisphere on the Andes and Quito.* (* Cyperus mucronatus, Poa eragrostis, Festuca myurus, Andropogos avenaceus, Lapago racemosa.