372 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Poa alpina, Linne. 



Alpine and Arctic Europe, Asia and North- America. Deserves 

 to be transferred to other higher mountains as a nutritious perennial 

 pasture-grass. P. sudetica (Haenke) and P. hybrida (Gaudin) are 

 mentioned also as excellent alpine grasses. 



Poa aquatica, Linne. (Glyceria aquatica, Smith.) 



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

 conspicuous water-grass attains a height of about 6 feet. It is 

 perennial, and deserves naturalisation in our swamps. It produces 

 a large bulk of foliage, and may be disseminated for fodder-purposes. 

 On the testimony of Dr. Curl, this is one of the best feeding grasses 

 in New Zealand. 



Poa arachnlfera, Torrey.* 



The Texas Blue Grass Prairies of Louisiana and Texas' 

 Perennial, with creeping roots. It spreads rapidly, surpasses in 

 size the Kentucky Blue Grass (Poa pratensis), and is known to 

 have grown 10 inches in ten days. Stock of all kinds have a 

 predilection for it. The winters of Texas do not even nip it, but it 

 dies down during summer; it is never quite tramped out [G. 

 Hogan] . It bears heavy pasturing, and can also be utilised for 

 lawns and as a forest-grass [S. Tally]. For permanent pasture, 

 this promises to be one of the very best grasses yet brought to the 

 attention of the Southern States [Dr. Vasey]. 



Poa Bergii, Hieronyrnus. 



La Plata- States. Supplies excellent fodder there, with some 

 species of the section Eragrostis. 



Poa Billardieri, Steudel. 



Extra- tropical Australia. A perennial rigid grass, of some value 

 for saline meadows. 



Poa Brownii, Kunth** (Eragrostis Brownii, Nees.) 



Tropical and Eastern extra-tropical Australia, according to 

 Duthie also in India. It is here mentioned as a valuable perennial 

 species, keeping beautifully green in the driest Australian summer, 

 even on poor soil ; indeed the missionary Pastor Kempe pronounces 

 it to be the best o all grasses on the Central-Australian pastures. 

 The section Eragrostis of the genus Poa contains numerous species 

 in the hotter parts of the globe. Of these, many would doubtless 

 be hardy far beyond the tropics, and prove of value on pastoral 

 land 



