Inventory 44, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate VI. 



A Field of Molasses Grass, Melinis minutiflora Beauv., S. P. I. No. 

 28768, from Brazil. (See S. P. I. No. 41 148. i 



A South African grass, commonly cultivated in Brazil, which has grown well in Florida and el 6- 

 where in the Gulf States. It is said to be eaten greedily by cattle and horses, because of the sticky 

 secretion on the. blades, which is said to amount to as much as 3.22 per cent of the dry digestible 

 matter. In the field it is of a purplish color, the sticky secretion sometimes being soevidenl as to 

 look like frost on the leaves, leading observers to believe that the grass was frost resistant. ( Photo- 

 graphed at the Gainesville, Fla., Experiment Station, bv Peter Bisset, November 14, 1 ( J12; 

 P10391FS.) 



