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(Field and Garden Crops) attribute them to a ferment supposed to be 

 generated in the grain, Drs. Pirie (I. c.) and Bona via of Luck- 

 now (Lid. Med. Gaz.) to a kind of fungus, which subsequent observers 

 failed to detect. Dr. Lyon (Med. Jurisprud. for India) classes Kodra 

 along with Darnel (Lolium temulentum) and Lathyrus sativus as a 

 cerebral poison, and does not mention, any fungus as being present in 

 the grain. 



Natives have various antidotes for Kodra poisoning. The most 

 usual ones are gruel made of the flour of urid (Phaseolus radiatus), 

 the stem of plantains, which is rich in tannin and alkaline salts, the 

 astringent juice of the leaves of Psidium guava or the leaves of 

 Nyctanthes arbor tristis. Whey has been mentioned before. It is 

 used in Damaun and the neighbouring villages. 



P. minutiflorum, Steud. Syn. — Gram 1, 17 ; Benth., Fl. Austr. 

 7, 461. All over tropical Asia. My specimens are from Poona, Nas- 

 sick and Thana, where it is very common. It is eaten by cattle, 

 especially when green. 



P. brevifolium, Flugge ; Kunt. Enum. 1, 48. Panicum tenui- 

 flonm, R. Br. 



Poona and Nassick, not common ; also in N.-W. India and Austra- 

 lia. Uses as fodder grass unknown. 



P. costatum, Hochst. 



At Mahableshwar and Lanowlie : at the latter place not uncom- 

 mon under the trees in the place known as Lanowlie Woods. It is an 

 elegant grass, \ — 1 foot high, with horizontal secund branches. 



Eriochloa, Humb. and Kunt. 

 E. annulata, Kunt., 1, 73 ; Paspalum annulatum, Trin., Sp. Gram., 

 t. 133. It is rare, but is found at Chowpatty (Bombay), North 

 Kanara, also all over India, Ceylon, and Australia. 



Isachne, R. Br. 



L australis, R. Br. Prodr. 196. 



Panicum atrovirens, Trin., Kunt. Enum. 1, 127. 

 P. antipodum, Spreng. Syst. 1, 314. 

 Vern. — Doaria or Daurra, Mez (Mount Abu). Common in Poona, 

 Nassick, the Ghauts, and Guzerat. Also in other parts of India. 

 Ceylon, and Australia. It grows in fields destroying the crops. 



