GRASSES. 885 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Mountain region. Cultivated and rarely escaped 
to border of fields and meadows. Cullman County. June. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab, in Europae pratis fertilissimis.” 
Economic uses: Important pasture and meadow grass. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Poa trivialis L. Sp. P].1:67. 1753. ROUGH-STALKED MEADOW GRass, 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 665, Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2: 108, t. 37, f. 145. 
EUROPE, CAUCASUS, SIBERIA. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Canada, throughout the Eastern States, and 
along the mountains southward to Georgia. Most probably introduced. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Mountain region. Madison County, Huntsville. 
Cullman County. June; rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Europae, pascuis.” 
Economic uses: Meadow and pasture grass. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Poa sylvestris Gray, Man. 596, 1848. WOODLAND BLUE GRASS. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 665. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 663; ed.3,615. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 
2:109, t. 37, f. 147. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Western New York, western Illinois, Missouri, 
Wisconsin, Kansas, Arkansas, and ‘Tennessee. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Coosa hills. Calhoun County, mountainous woods 
near Anniston, 900 feet. Madison County, Montesano, 1,000 feet. Infrequent. 
Perenniai. 
Type locality: ‘‘Rocky banks and meadows, Ohio (and Kentucky), Short! Sulli- 
vant! Michigan, and southwestward.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Poa autumnalis Muhl.; Ell, 8k, 1:159, 1817, BENDING SPEAR GRASS. 
Poa flecuosa Muhl. Gram. 148. 1817. Not J. E. Smith. 1803. 
El. Sk. 1:159. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 666. Chap. Fl. 562. Seribner, Grass. Tenn. 
2:109, t. 37, f. 146, 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New York, Pennsylvania, West Vir- 
ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee; hill country of North Carolina to middle Florida, west 
to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Central Prairie belt. In rich shady woods, hill- 
sides. Morgan County. Winston County, Collins Creek, 1,200 feet. Cullman County. 
Lee County, Auburn (Baker §° Earle). Montgomery County, Pentulala Creek, 350 
feet. April, May. Frequent. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘ From specimens sent by Mr. Herbemont, from Columbia. Jound 
in Georgia by Dr. Baldwin.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Poa flava L. Sp. P1.1: 68, 1753. FautsE Reptrop, FowiL MEapow GRass, 
Poa serotina Ehrh. Beitr. 6:83. 1791. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 665. 
Canadian zone to Carolinian area, Indigenous in British North America from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific. Northern New England west to Minnesota, Nebraska, the 
Rocky Mountains, and Washiugton, south to New Jersey. Adventive and escaped 
from cultivation in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, 
ALABAMA: Cultivated in the mountain region and Tennessee Valley and escaped. 
Swampy meadows. Cullman County. June; rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: “Hab. in Virginia,” 
Herb, Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
SCLEROPOA Griseb. Spicil J. Rumel. 2:431. 1844, 
Two species, perennials, of the Mediterranean region. 
Scleropoa rigida (L.) Griseb. Spicil. Fl. Rumel. 2:431. 1844. 
Poa rigida L. Amoen. Acad, 4: 265, 1759. 
Festuca rigida Kunth, Rév. Gram. 1:129. 1835. 
Adventive from southern Europe. 
ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast. Mobile. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab, in Gallia, Anglia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
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