DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 2138 
1-flowered, 1 or 2-seriate, in 3 to 6 digitate slender unilateral spikes, not jointed at the 
base; grain laterally compressed. 
This plant is distributed throughout all warm countries. In India it is an impor- 
tant forage plant and is much used for lawns. On account of its usefulness and beauty 
the Hindoos have celebrated it in their writings, and the native Hawaiians hold it 
in great esteem. It thrives where scarcely any other grass will grow, even in poor 
soil shaded by trees. It is useful in binding down the sand near the sea, and on the 
low sandy soil of Agafia, the capital of Guam, it forms beautiful soft turf, When 
once established in cultivated fields it is hard to eradicate. In India the young 
leaves are eaten by the natives and a cooling drink is made of the roots. 
It is readily propagated by cuttings. When required for lawns a suflicient quantity 
can easily be collected from the roadside and waste places. The ground is dug and 
leveled and the rootstocks cut into small pieces set out at intervals of about 30 centi- 
meters. The plat should be watered until the grass has established itself. 
‘‘A more expeditious and very successful plan of laying down a lawn is to pull up 
a quantity of grass by the roots, chop it tolerably fine, mix it well in a compost of 
mud of about the consistency of mortar, and spread it out thinly over the piece of 
ground where the lawn is required. In a few days the grass will spring up with 
great regularity over the plat.’’“ In establishing a pasture the grass should be 
planted at intervals of 50 centimeters in rows one meter apart. 
REFERENCES: 
Capriola dactylon (1..) Kuntze, Rey. Gen. 2: 764. 1891. 
Panicum dactylon L. Sp. Pl 1:58, 1753. 
Cynodon dactylon Pers. Syn. 1:85, 1805. 
Capsicum annuum. Rep PEPPER. CAYENNE PEPPER. 
“amily Solanaceae. 
LocaL NAMES.—Doni (Guam); Chile (Philippines); Cahtias, Chile (Mexico); 
Ajf (Spanish America). 
A plant of tropical American origin, but escaped from cultivation in many tropical 
countries of the Old World, where it was once supposed to be indigenous. Stem 
branching, glabrous or nearly so; leaves ovate or subelliptical, entire, acuminate; 
flowers white or greenish white, solitary, or sometimes in twos or threes; corolla 
rotate, usually 5-lobed; stamens 5, rarely 6 or 7, with bluish anthers dehiscing 
longitudinally; ovary originally 2 or 3-celled; fruit a juiceless berry or pod, extremely 
rariable in form and size, many-seeded, and with more or less pungency about the 
seeds and pericarp. Many varieties occur in cultivation.” Among the forms usually 
assigned to this species are Capsicum annuwmn grossum, the bell pepper, and Capsicum 
annuum cerasiforme, the cherry pepper. ¢ 
REFERENCES: 
Capsicum annuum L. Sp. Pl. 1: 188. 1753. 
Capsicum annuum cerasiforme. CHERRY PEPPER, CAYENNE PEPPER. 
A low, shrubby plant; leaves of medium size, ovate or oblong, acuminate; calyx 
seated on base of fruit; corolla large, spreading; fruit spherical, somewhat heart- 
shaped, or slightly elongated; flesh firm, very pungent. Of recent introduction on 
the island. 
REFERENCES: 
Capsicum annuum cerasiforme (Mill.) H. C. Irish, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 9: 92. 
1898. 
Capsicum cerasiforme Mill. Gard. Dict. no. 5. 1768. 
@ Bull. Bot. Dept. Jamaica, 1896, p, 30. 
bSee Irish, Rey. genus Capsicum, Ninth Ann. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard., p. 53, 1898. 
¢See Tracy, W. W., Jr. A list of American varieties of peppers, U. S. Dept. Agr., 
Bureau Pl. Industry, Bull. No. 6, 1902. 
