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Fig. 536. Poa alsodes A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2 : 562. 1856. Wood- 

 land Blue-grass. — A slender, erect, smooth perennial 2 to 6 dm. 

 high, with flat leaves and open panicles 9 to 20 cm. long. Spike- 

 lets (a) 5 mm. long, 2- to 3-flowered, with very acute glumes, the 

 outer ones unequal, the flowering glumes (b) about 4 mm. long 

 with a long tuft of cobwebby hairs at the base. — Thickets and 

 open woodlands, Nova Scotia to Ontario and Minnesota, south- 

 ward to North Carolina and Tennessee. May, June. 



