GRASSES OF MINOR IMPORTANCE 107 



The botanical name is Axonopus compressus (Swartz) 

 Beauv. It has been called Pas pedum compression Rasp, 

 and Anastrophus compressus Schlecht. 



RESCUE GRASS 



Rescue grass 'is occasionally grown in the Southern 

 States for winter forage. It is an erect annual grass 

 1 to 3 feet high, the panicle bearing a few spreading 

 branches and rather few large flat spikelets 1/2 to 2/3 

 inch long. The spikelets are several -flowered, the lem- 

 mas sharp-pointed and sometimes slightly bristle-pointed 

 but not awned. Rescue grass is a native of South 

 America. It is also known as Schrader's brome grass 

 and Australian brome grass. The botanical name is 

 Bromus unioloides H. B. K. 



GUINEA GRASS 



Guinea grass is the most important cultivated forage 

 grass of tropical America. Like most tropical forage 

 plants it is cut and fed green. In the United States it 

 can be grown only in southern Florida and southern 

 Texas. It is an erect perennial, growing in large dense 

 bunches, the stems 4 to 8 feet high, with flat blades and a 

 large open spreading panicle I to 2 feet long with num- 

 erous small green elliptic spikelets about 1/8 inch long. 

 Guinea grass is a native of Africa. Its botanical name is 

 Panicum maximum Jacq. 



PARA GRASS 



Para grass is another important tropical forage grass 

 which can be grown in the United States only in southern 

 Florida and southern Texas. Para grass is a perennial 



