40 PANICEAE 



relatively large "seeds" and the long wiry runners by which 

 it spreads over the ground. It is best adapted to fine compact 

 soils and requires rather more water than the average of 

 the native perrenial grasses. It is not uncommonly a weedy 

 encroacher in pastures and fields and is not very good feed, 

 though stock eat it when it is green and tender or when 

 there is nothing better available. 



There are four large species of Faniciiin (Nos. 13, 14, 

 15, and 16, listed below) which are tall (2 to 4 feet) bunch 

 grasses with thickened bulWike bases to the stems or short 

 underground stems by which they propagate. They occur 

 mostly in the mountains, sometimes in arroyos leading from 

 the mountains, and are tolerably important forage plants. 

 The panicles are usually large and widely spreading with 

 rather large rounded spikelets on the ends of long and 

 slender branches. During the summer time they are freely 

 eaten by stock everywhere they occur. 



Mr. J. K. Metcalfe grew two of chem quite success- 

 fully in his small garden, demonstrating their fitness for 

 cultivation. They do not germinate readily, hence do not 

 spread rapidly, nor do they cure standing as several of the 

 Grama grasses do. As grasses to be cultivated they can not 

 compare with several of the common cultivated forage 

 plants. As grasses able to grow in mountain canons and 

 rock crevices they are important. 



Italian Millet, German Millet or Hungarian 

 Grass are all names for a cultivated form of Chaetochloa 

 {C. itaVica) which is rather like a large Foxtail grass. It 

 has been selected for size for a long time and the ordinary 

 cultivated forms have heads 4 to 5 inches long and often an 

 inch in diameter. They produce large quantities of seed and 

 much forage and the grass is used considerably in cultivation. 

 It will ])robably be grown more in New Mexico as farmers 

 learn its value. 



Another species of this genus which promises to be of 



