292 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Poa fertilis, Host. (P. serotina, Ehrhart.) 



Europe, Northern Asia, North-America. Perennial. Important 

 for wet meadows, even with sandy subsoil. Its foliage is tender, 

 tasty and nourishing. In mixtures of grasses it keeps up the 

 growth late into the autumn; it will prosper also on sandy and saline 

 soil. 



Poa fluitans, Scopoli. (Glyceriafluitans, R. Brown.) 



The Manna-grass. Europe, North- Africa, Middle and Northern 

 Asia, North-America, East-Australia. Perennial. Excellent for 

 stagnant water and slow-flowing streams. The foliage is tender. 

 The seeds are sweet and palatable, and in many countries are used for 

 porridge. This grass is indigenous in Norway northward to lat. 

 69 9' (Schuebeler). 



Poa foliosa, J. Hooker. 



Auckland- and Campbell-Island, as well as Southern New Zealand, 

 reaching almost to the glacier-region. Perennial, forming large 

 mounds. Prof. Kirk calls it a noble species, producing an immense 

 yield of foliage. Mr. Buchanan also speaks of the fattening food 

 afforded to horses and cattle by this grass. 



Poa Porsteri, Steudel. (Dactylls ccespitosa, Forster.) 



The Tussock-grass. Fuegia, Falkland-Islands, South-Patagonia. 

 Introduced by Sir Joseph Hooker into the Hebrides, and by Mr. 

 Traill into the Orkney-Islands. Delights, according to Mr. Ingram, 

 in deep, boggy and mossy land, even when exposed to sea-spray. 

 Cultivated plants might be dressed with some salt. Thrives in cold 

 countries near the sea in pure sand, at the edge of peat-bogs. It 

 would probably prosper on alpine moors. It is perennial, and reaches 

 a height of nine feet. It is very nutritions and much sought by 

 herds. The base of the stem is nutty and edible. An allied species 

 is P. Cookii (J. Hooker) from Kerguelen's Island. 



Poa maritima, Hudson. 



Europe, North- Africa, Northern Asia, North- America. Roots long 

 and creeping. This grass can also be depastured and grown on 

 brackish meadows. 



Poa nemoralis, Linne". 



Europe, Northern and Middle Asia, North-America. This peren- 

 nial grass can be raised on shady forest-land, as the name implies; but 

 it accommodates itself also to open places, and will grow even among 

 dry rocks. It endures alpine winters. According to Lawson no 

 better grass exists for displacing weeds on pleasure-lawns; the same 

 may be said of Poa compressa, L. 



Poa nervata, Willdenow. 



Southern States of North- America, called in Alabama the Manna- 

 grass. Perennial. Valuable for pastures in low forest-land (C. Mohr). 



