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is bemg given to grass and relatively less to cotton, and better 
methods and implements of cultivation are being employed. Still, 
it seems probable, from the reports received, that at the present time 
a majority of farmers would prefer not to have it on their farms. It 
seeds very sparingly in the United States, and as the imported seed 
is not always to be had, and is expensive and often of poor quality, 
those who have desired to cultivate it on a large scale have seldom 
been able to do so. It is generally used as a lawn grass, and to hold 
levels or railroad embankments, and for small pastures.” (Vasey.) 
‘Perhaps no one plant represents more value to the south than does 
‘Bermuda’ ; certainly no other forage plant is more precious to that 
section. Whether for hay or for pasturage, it is everywhere placed 
first, and is considered the most nutritious grass that can be success- 
fully grown in the Southern United States. While it requires a fertile 
soil for its best development, it will grow on the thinnest soil, being 
acommon plant of sea-beaches. In such situations the plants are 
very small, the erect flowering stems bemeg quite short, and long 
sterile shoots (sometimes 6 feet long), rooting at every joint, are pro- 
duced. In better land a light loamy soil seems to suit it best, the 
tendency to send out long creeping shoots is checked, the upward 
growth is much greater, and the amount of leafage imcreases corre- 
spondingly, the whole plant becoming much taller and_ succulent. 
Besides its great value as a forage plant, Bermuda is one of the most 
effective of soil holders. When growing on sandy river banks and 
ocean beaches it is, apparently, the most valuable sand-binding grass 
of the Southern States. It is sometimes planted by roadsides and 
upon embankments for this purpose, and is a favourite lawn grass in 
most towns and cities, forming a close, fine turf, and remaining green 
in the driest and most sun- exposed s situations.” (Kearney.) 
Other uses.—Used largely in medicinal preparations by the natives 
of India, and also by them for some sacred and ceremonial purposes. 
It really does possess some medicinal properties, as certified to by 
properly qualified medical men in India. For further particulars, 
Watts’ Dictionary of the Economic Products of India may be referred 
to. 
Habitat and range-—Found in all the colonies. except Tasmania ; 
well diffused in New South Wales. 
“This is a common and troublesome weed in all hot and some 
temperate countries, and although generally spread over the settled 
parts of extra-tropical Australia, it may have been introduced as 
suggested by R. Brown.” (Benth.) 
73. CHLORIS. 
Spikelets one-flowered, awned, singly sessile in two rows on one side 
of simple spikes, either solitary or digitate at the end of the peduncle, 
the rhachis of the spikelet articulate immediately above the outer 
glumes. 
Outer empty glumes two, keeled, persistent, awnless. 
