PLANTS OF NORTH ELBA 149 



Avena striata -Mx. 

 Purple oat 

 Dry soil. Common. June. 



A. striata pallida Pk. 

 Growing with the typical form but differing from it in having a pale 

 panicle with no purple hues in the spikelets. 



Danthonia spicata (Z.) Bv, 



Wild oat grass 



Roadsides, pastures and worn out meadows. Very common. July. 

 A small grass with tough wiry stems. As the meadows become im- 

 poverished this grass makes its appearance in them and unless their 

 fertiUty is renewed it soon takes complete possession. It makes poor hay. 



Dactylis glomerata Z. 



Orchard grass 



Introduced and naturalized. Occasional. July. An early and 

 valuable grass growing freely even in shade. 



POA 



Panicle narrow, culm distinctly flattened compressa 



Panicle spreading, culm terete or slightly flattened 1 



1 Culms less than a foot long annua 



1 Culms more than a foot long 2 



2 Spikelets very numerous, less than 2 lines long flava 



2 Spikelets 2 lines long or more 3 



3 Spikelets crowded, sessile or on short pedicels pratensis 



3 Spikelets scattered, on slender pedicels alsodes 



Poa compressa Z. 



Wire grass. Flat stemmed meadow grass. English blue gras 



Dry rocky or sandy soil. Very common and very variable. June and 

 July. 



Poa annua Z. 



Annual meadow grass. Low spear grass 



Roadsides and waste places. Common. July to August. A pale 

 green introduced grass of small size and often of a spreading or half 

 prostrate habit. 



