384 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Briza minor L. Sp. PI. 1 : 70. 1753. SMALLER QUAKING GRASS. 



EUROPE, TROPICAL AMERICA. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. From New Jersey southward. Adventive and 

 more frequently naturalized than the above. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Dry grassy places, roadsides, pastures. Mobile County. 

 May, June. Not rare. Annual. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Helvetia, Italia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



DACTYLIS L. Sp. PL 1 : 71. 1753. 



One species, Europe, temperate Asia, North Africa. Naturalized in North America. 

 Dactylis glomerata L. Sp. PI. 1 : 71. 1753. ORCHARD GRASS. 



Ell. Sk. 1:155. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 663. Chap. Fl. 564. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 

 2 : 104, t. 35, f. 140. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. From Canada to the Gulf. 



ALABAMA : Over the State. Cultivated and rarely escaped. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Europae cultis ruderatis. 



Economic uses : Valuable hay crop. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



POA L.Sp.Pl.l:67. 1753. 



About 100 species, cooler and temperate regions of both hemispheres. United 

 States, 35 to 40. 



Poa aniiua L. Sp. PL 1 : 68. 1753. SPEAR GRASS. SIX-WEEKS GRASS. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 158. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 664. Chap. Fl. 562. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 311. 

 Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 106, t. 36, f. 141. 



MEXICO, BRAZIL. 



Naturalized throughout the continent from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, 

 and from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. 



ALABAMA : All over the State. A winter annual, common in waste places and door- 

 yards. Flowers at Mobile in February ; disappears with the advent of summer. 



Type locality : lf Hab. in Europa ad vias." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Poa chapmaniana Scribner, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 38. 1894. 



CHAPMAN'S SPEAR GRASS. 



Poa cristata Chap. Fl. 562. 1860. Not Walt. 



Chap. Fl. 1. c. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 107, t. 36, f. 142. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Central Tennessee to middle Florida. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Central Prairie belt. Dry sandy places, borders 

 of fields, roadsides. Cullman County, 800 feet. Montgomery County. April; not 

 infrequent. Annual. 



In small tufts, stems erect. 



Type locality of Poa cristata Chap. : "Dry soil around Quincy, middle Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Poa compressa L. Sp. PL 1 : 69. 1753. ENGLISH BLUE GRASS. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 664. Chap. Fl. 563. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 107, t. 36, f. 143. 



Alleghenian to Louisianiau area. Considered indigenous in the mountain region 

 of Pennsylvania, northwestern Minnesota, and Nebraska. Naturalized throughout 

 Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Atlantic States to the Mississippi. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley. Mountain region to Central Prairie belt, in dry 

 sandy and loamy soil. Cullman, Tuscaloosa, Hale, and Montgomery counties. May, 

 June; frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Europae et Americae septentrioualis siccis." 



Economic uses: Valuable pasture grass. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Poa pratensis L. Sp. PL 1 : 67. 1753. JUNE GRASS. KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS. 



Poa viridis Muhl. Gram. 138. 1817. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 159. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 665. Chap. Fl. 562. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 108, 

 t.36,f.!44. 



EUROPE. 



Boreal zone to Louisianian area. Indigenous in tho mountains of Pennsylvania 

 and northward. Naturalized in the Eastern United States. 



