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sod and withstands well the heat of summer and protracted drought. Owing to 
the elites of the seda, they are een to sow, and as they are rather 
pen ly propagated as it otherwise would 
have hee en. A somewhat troublesome, but more certain, method of propagation is 
by root cuttings. These may be planted at any time during the fall or early spring 
months, being set out in rows 2 feet apart and 6 to 10 inches apart in the rows. 
The retail price of the seed, according to New York catalogues, is $3 per pound. 
Poa arida Vasey. Bunch Spear-grass; Bunch-grass; Mountain Spear-grass. 
A gems upright perennial, 1 to 2 feet high, with rather rigid, sharp-pointed leaves, 
and a close or narrow panicle 2 to 3 inches long. This grass is a native of the 
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valuable as a pasture grass in the dry regions of the West. 
Poa brevifolia. (See Poa flexuosa.) 
Poa buckleyana Nash. Bunch-grass; Bunch Red-top. (Fig. 73.) 
Rather slender, 1 to 2 feet high, with no creeping rootstock, very 
narrow root leaves, and contracted panicles of usually pur- 
plish spikelets. Itisa perennial, and a native of the Roc 
introduced into cultivation, but is deserving of attention, 
for it responde nan to ch giao ee n when 
nxuriant 
growth « of foliage, and often attains a height of 2 or 3 feet. 
There are many species of Poa native to the northern por- 
r om the seashore to highest mountain tops, on 
arctic zone to the other, the genus Poa has its represent- 
atives. 
Poa cespitosa Forst. var. Silver Tussock. 
A large tussock grass, native of Australia and New Zealand, and 
Fic. 73.—Bunch Red- 2 
tog. "Pla boii grasses. It grows to the height of 3 feet, and has very 
ana.) 
ut the remarkably tough herbage renders it excellent for 
the manufacture of paper, a purpose for which it is largely employed. (Kirk.) 
Poa californica Vasey. California Blue-grass. 
Widely distributed in the Rocky Mountain region and on the Pacific Slope, extend- 
hward through pued into Mexico. It grows in tufts to the height of 
it grows rire le and may prove a valuable Given. to the forage grasses 
of the Atlantie Sta 
Poa Linn. 8 Spear-grass; Blue-grass; Smaller — 
English B „ Creeping Poa; . ; Flat-stalked Meadow-grass; Flat- 
stalked Blue-grass; Canadian Blue 4 
A slender perennial, sm much-flattened stems, 6 to 20 inches high, and i nar- 
has extensively creeping rootstocks, and forms a 
