MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES 



4. Poa chapmaniana Scribn. (Fig. 

 118.) Plant drying pale or tawny; 

 culms densely tufted, slender, 10 to 

 30 cm. tall; blades 1 to 1.5 mm. wide; 

 panicle oblong-pyramidal, 3 to 8 cm. 

 long, open, the lower branches spread- 

 ing; spikelets 3 to 4 mm. long, mostly 

 3- to 5-flowered; glumes 2 and 2.5 



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Figure 116. — Poa howellii. Panicle, X 1; floret, X 10. 

 (Suksdorf 10464, Wash.) 



mm. long; lemmas about 2 mm. long, 

 webbed at base, strongly pubescent 

 on the keel and lateral nerves, the 

 intermediate nerves obscure; anthers 

 0.1 to 0.2 mm. long. O — Open 

 ground and cultivated fields, Massa- 

 chusetts and New York; Delaware to 

 Nebraska, Florida and Texas. 



Figure 117. — Poa bigelovii. Panicle, X 1; floret, X 10. 

 (Fendler 931, N. Mex.) 



Figure 118. — Poa chapmaniana. Panicle, X 1; floret, 

 X 10. (V. H. Chase 3557, 111.) 



