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23. Poa marcida Hitchc. (Fig. 192.) Culms erect, in small tufts, 

 40 to 100 cm tall; ligule very short; blades thin, 1 to 3 mm wide; 

 panicle drooping, narrow, 10 to 18 cm long, the capillary branches 



FIGURE 193. Poa alsodes. Panicle, X 1; floret, X 10. (Wilson, N.Y.) 



somewhat distant, solitary or in pairs, ascending or appressed; 

 spikelets mostly 2-flowered; glumes about 3 mm long; lemmas nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, acuminate, 4 to 5 mm long, glabrous, long-webbed at 

 base. 21 Bogs and wet shadv places, Van- 

 couver Island to the coast mountains of Oregon. 

 24. Poa alsodes A. Gray. (Fig. 193.) ^Culms 

 in lax tufts, 30 to 60 cm tall; blades thin, lax, 

 2 to 5 mm wide; panicle 10 to 20 cm long, very- 

 open, the slender branches in distant whorls 

 of threes to fives, finally widely spreading, 

 FIGURE ^.-Distribution of na ked below, f e w-flo wered ; spikelets 2- or 3- 

 flowered, about 5 mm long; lemmas gradually 



acute, webbed at base, pubescent on the lower part of the keel, other- 

 wise glabrous, faintly nerved. 91 Rich or moist woods, Maine 

 to Minnesota, south to Delaware and the mountains of North Carolina 

 and Tennessee (fig. 194). 



FIGURE 195. Poa languida. Panicle, X 1; floret, X 10. (Chase 7511, N.Y.) 



25. Poa languida Hitchc. (Fig. 195.) Culms weak, in loose tufts, 

 30 to 60 or even 100 cm tall; ligule about 1 mm long; blades lax, 2 to 

 4 mm wide; panicle nodding, 5 to 10 cm long, the few slender branches 



