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“Tt produces many culms from each stool, many broad green leaves, 
and abundance of seed, and will reseed the ground each year. Land 
once seeded with it would produce a crop of fair hay after a crop of 
wheat has been taken off, provided the wheat stubble be turned under 
and the land irrigated. It is generally associated with Panicwm 
erus-galli and P. colonum. 
“No grass, however good it may be, is grown for hay or pasture 
in this section, since Alfalfa supplies these demands; so it is not 
customary to cut this one for hay except when it appears as a weed in 
the Alfalfa fields. But the occasional lack of water would seem to be 
the only good reason why a crop of hay might not be cut from the 
fields that le idle during the latter half of the season. Quite a good 
deal of it is cut by the Mexicans, and fed green to stock while waiting 
for corn to mature. 
“The grass is a native of this south-western arid section, being 
reported from Kansas, Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico, notably 
from the creek bottoms of this territory. The nutritive ratio of 1 to 
9-3 is narrower than in the case of Timothy hay of the eastern States, 
and so far as can be judged from the analysis, it should be a valuable 
forage plant.” (Some New Mewxican Forage Plants, Bulletin No. 18, 
March, 1896, p. 64.) 
Habitit and range.-—Found on every kind of soil and widely spread 
as H. annulata, being common in the tropics of both the New and Old 
World and New Guinea. It occurs in all the colonies except Tasmania. 
2. Eriochloa annulata, Kunth. 
Botanical name.—Annulata, Latin annulus, a rmg; in allusion to 
the annular callus or ring-like base of the spikelet. 
Synonyms.—See H. punctata. 
Vernacular name.—Harly Spring grass (Bailey). 
Where figured.—Agric. Gaz. See H. punctata. 
Botanical description (B. F1., vii, 463).—A smaller and more slender 
grass than H. punctata, the leaves usually narrower, glabrous. 
Spikes slender, 1 to 14 inches long, the main axis of the infloresence as well as the 
rhachis usually glabrous, the pedicels sometimes bearing a few short hairs. 
Spikelets narrow, tapering at the end, scarcely 14 lines long, including the point, 
which is rather longer than in ZL. punctata. 
Empty glumes much less hairy than in that species, three or rarely five nerved. 
Flowering glume the same. 
Variety acrotricha, spikelets rather longer, with long points and 
rather more hairy, and the hairs of the pedicels more numerous, with 
a few sometimes also on the rhachis (B.Fl.) Found from the coast 
and table-land to the interior. 
Value as a fodder.—This is a valuable grass, one of the best, and, 
as already pointed out, closely related to H. punctata. In any case 
the remarks on these two grasses may, from the point of view of the 
farmer and pastoralist, be considered to be interchangeable. Mr. 
Seccombe has experimented on the grasses, side by side on the Rich- 
mond River, and following is his statement :—“‘ It is said that this grass 
