GRASSES. 385 



Alabama: Tennessee Valley. Mountain region. Cultivated and rarely escai)ed 

 to border of fields and meadows. Cullman County. June. Perennial. 

 Type locality: "Hub. in Enropae pratis fertilissimis." 

 Economic uses: Important pasture and meadow grass. 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Poa trivialis L. Sp. PI. 1 : 67. 1753. Rough-stalked Meadow Grass. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 665. Scribner, Grass. Teun. 2 : 108, t. 37, f. 145. 



Europe, Caucasus, Siberia. 



Alleghenian to Lonisianiau area. Canada, tbroughotit tho 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. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality: "Rocky banks and meadows, Ohio (and Kentucky), Short! SiiUi- 

 vant! Michigan, and southwestward," 



Herb. Geol. .Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Poa autumnalis Muhl. ; Ell. Sk. 1:159. 1817. Bending Speak Grass. 



Poa /exMOsa Mubl. Gram. 148. 1817. Not J. E. Smith. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1:159. Gray, Man. ed. 6,666. Chap. Fl. 562. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 

 2 : 109, t. 37, f. 146. 



Carolinian and Louisiauian 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 Couuty, Auburn (Z?«Aer cj- Earle). Montgomery County, Pentulala Creek, 350 

 feet. April, May. Frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: "From specimens sent by Mr. Herbemont, from Columbia. Found 

 in Georgia by Dr. Baldwin." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Poa flava L. Sp. PI. 1 : 68. 1753. False Redtop. Fowl Meadow 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 Fl. 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. 

 Fesluca rif/ida Kunth, Rev. 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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