1918] Fernald & Wiegand,— New Species of Poa 123 
cauline short, with the blade usually shorter than the sheath, smooth- 
margined or somewhat scabrous at tip; ligule of the upper leaves 
short, 0.3-1.5 mm. long, usually erose: primary panicles 0.6-2 dm. 
long, nodding and secund; the branches long and slender, ascending 
and widely nodding, more or less scabrous, spikelet-bearing near the 
tips, the middle and lower in 2’s, very rarely in 1’s or 3’s: spikelets 
3-5-flowered, 3.5-5.5 mm. long: glumes subequal, acute, about 
three-fourths as long as the nearest lemma, glabrous: lemmas 3.2-4 
mm. long, acute, glabrous except the webbed base, green or rarely 
purple-tinged; margin narrowly hyaline; the marginal and interme- 
diate nerves prominent: anthers 1-1.2 mm. long, yellowish: grain ellip- 
soid-fusiform, reddish-brown, 2-2.5 mm. long.— Woodland thickets 
and recent clearings, extending from eastern Quebec to western 
Ontario, southward to Nova Scotia, southern Maine, southern New 
Hampshire, central Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, the 
mountains of Pennsylvania, and westward to northern Michigan. 
QUEBEC. Gaspé Co.: alluvial woods, Grand River, June 30-July 3, 
1904, Fernald; wooded banks of River Ste. Anne des Monts, July 14, 
1906, Fernald & Collins, no. 167 in part; wooded and alluvial banks, 
River Ste. Anne des Monts, July 14-16, 1906, Fernald & Collins, no. 
357 (type in Gray Herb.); calcareous alpine meadow at 1000-1100 m., 
Table-top Mt., August 7 & 12, 1906, Fernald & Collins, nos. 336, 338, 
374; eastern syenitic slope of Table-top Mt., August 9 and 11, 1906, 
Fernald & Collins, no. 341. Rimouski Co.: damp woods, Bic, July 12, 
1907, Fernald & Collins, no. 892. Prince Epwarp Isuanp. Prince 
Co.: dry clearing, Alberton, July 11, 1912, Fernald & St. John, no. 
6904. Queens Co.: dry woods and clearings, St. Dunstan’s, July 10, 
1914, Fernald & St. John in Pl. Exsice. Gray. no. 122. Kings Co.: 
open woods, Morell, June 29, 1914, Fernald & St. John, no. 10914. 
Nova Scoria. Victoria Co.: Cold Brook, Sugar-loaf Mt., Aspy Bay, 
July 12, 1909, J. R. Churchill. Inverness Co.: moist woods, valley 
of the Barrasois River, July 25, 1914, G. E. Nichols, no. 326. MAINE. 
Aroostook Co.: common in woods, on gravelly shores, etc., St. Francis, 
July 17, 1898, Fernald, no. 2177; abundant in recent clearings, 
Masardis, June 8, 1898, Fernald, no. 2174; low woods, Masardis, 
June 8, 1898, Fernald, no. 2179; Presque Isle, July 14, 1902, Walliams, 
Collins & Fernald; rocky woods, Mars Hill, July 14, 1893, Fernald. 
= Penobscot Co.: mossy woods, Orono, May 30, 1889, May 30, 1890, 
Fernald, June, 1891, F. P. Briggs. Piscataquis Co.: Brownville, 
1905, J. C. Parlin; abundant in rich woods, Foxcroft, June 6, 1898, 
Fernald. Oxford Co.: open woods, Canton, June 20, 1906, Parlin, 
no. 2062. Washington Co.: recent clearings, rare, Perry, July 9, 
1909, Fernald, no. 1313. Cumberland Co.: rich woods, Searboro, 
May 31, 1903, Fellows & Fernald. York Co.: North Berwick, June, 
1892, Parlin. New Hampsutre. Coös Co.: damp woods, Second 
Lake, Pittsburg, July 2, 1907, Pease, no. 10219; river-bank, Atkinson 
& Gilmanton Academy Grant, July 1, 1910, Pease, no. 12590; wooded 
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