MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES 



blades rather lax, about 2 mm. wide; 

 panicle 4 to 10 cm. long, the branches 

 spreading; spikelets 2- to 5-flowered, 

 3 to 5 mm. long; glumes narrow, 

 sharply acuminate, about as long as 

 the first floret; lemmas 2 to 3 mm. 

 long, sparsely webbed at base, pubes- 

 cent on the keel and marginal nerves, 

 the intermediate nerves obscure. % 

 — Labrador to Alaska and British 

 Columbia; occasional in meadows, 



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Figure 147. — Poa paucispicula. Panicle, X 1; floret, 

 X 10. (Hitchcock 11711, Wash.) 



Figure 149. — Poa paludigena. Panicle, X 1; floret, 

 X 10. (Eames and Wiegand 9250, N. Y.) 



Figure 148. — Poa leptocoma. Panicle, X 1; floret, 

 X 10. (Arsene and Benedict 15562, N. Mex.) 



Maine to Pennsylvania, Michigan, 

 and Minnesota; Wyoming; Washing- 

 ton; Delaware and Virginia; intro- 

 duced from Europe. Differing from P. 

 palustris and P. interior in the very 

 short ligule and the narrow acumi- 

 nate glumes. 



38. Poa macroclada Rydb. (Fig. 

 152.) Culms 50 to 80 cm. tall, gla- 

 brous; ligule prominent, 2 to 3 mm. 

 long; blades 2 to 3 mm. wide; panicle 

 open, 10 to 20 cm. long, pyramidal, 

 the branches spreading, distant, in 

 twos or threes, as much as 8 cm. 

 long, naked on the lower half or 



