FORAGE PLANTS. 
A. GRASSES, 
OR 
NATURAL ORDER GRAMINEZ. 
A FEW grasses, not useful as fodder plants, but having miscel- 
laneous uses, have been placed here for convenience. 
Hardly any group of plants is so variable as the present 
one, hence the different statements made by different authors 
in regard to some of the species. 
ly Agropyrum scabrum, Beauv., (Syn. Festuca scabra, Labill. ; 
F. rectiseta, F. Browniana, F. Billiardiert, Anthosachne aus- 
tralastca, Steud.; Triticum scabrum, R.Br.; Vulpia rectiseta, 
V. Browniant, V. scabra, V. Brauniana, Nees.), B.F1., vii., 
665. Agropyron in Muell. Cens., p. 135. 
This grass is a good winter species. It stands the drought 
well. It is rather coarse, growing plentifully on rich soil ; it is not 
much relished by stock, but is eaten when young. The seeds are 
very injurious to sheep, often causing blindness by penetrating 
their eyes. They deteriorate wool greatly. 
It has been rather differently described as follows:—*A 
perennial grass ; grows about two feet in height ; does not perfect 
its seed well; produces plenty of tender foliage, and is not much 
affected by dry seasons, or easily injured by overstocking. It is a 
valuable grass.” 
* Iam indebted to Mr. Frederick Turner, Superintendent of Hyde Park Gardens, 
Sydney, for some of the notes on grasses, 
