130 Remarks on Poa Sudetica* 



it is very easily detected whether it is in flower or not. 

 When in flower it may be passed by as P. trivialis, to which 

 the panicle has a slight resemblance, if growing thickly 

 amongst other plants, so that the root leaves are hidden ; 

 but a glance at the stems will at once show the difference, 

 the sheaths being strongly two-edged. 



It will grow and thrive where very few other grasses will 

 live. At Springwood, Poa nemoralis grows along with it. 

 At Pinnacle Hill, Poa nemoralis, Milium effusum, and 

 Bromus asper, and at the Rabbit braes, Bromus asper, 

 Triticum caninum, and Brachypodium sylvaticum, are its 

 only companions that seem to be at home. Veronica mon- 

 tana grows along with it, both at Pinnacle Hill and the 

 Rabbit-braes plantation, 



Berwickshire another station for Poa Sudetica, Haenke. 

 By Andeew Kelly. 



There is no stint of this grass in Blackadder woods ; it 

 grows everywhere abundant in isolated tufts, and in larger 

 patches where circumstances are particularly favourable. I 

 noticed it as early as 1863, but not being able to refer it to 

 any of the existing species of Poa then recorded in our 

 Floras, I naturally conjectured that it was a cultivated 

 species, and that the smashed and tufty appearance of the 

 habitat was attributable in some way to clumsy tilling 

 previous to the planting of the wood. Subsequently, how- 

 ever, in 1873, I had an opportunity of examining a descrip- 

 tion of this Poa ; also, Mr. A. Brotherston's hints in the 

 " S. Naturalist " of Poa Sudetica. From these I at once 

 found that my Poa could be no other than Sudetica ; but 

 not resting satisfied with my own discrimination, specimens 

 of it were sent to Mr. Brotherston, its original finder, who at 

 once identified it. The approach to Blackadder house passes 

 through some large tufts of this grass. 



Remarks on Poa Sudetica. By James Hardy. 



The habitat assigned byWilldenow ("Enumeratio Plantarum 

 Hort. Reg. Bot. Berolinensis," p. 106) to this fine grass, is 

 a in the marshy, wooded, moist, and rocky places of Germany, 



