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stony ground, and delights like most leguminous herbs in limestone- 

 soil. The foliage is succulent and nutritions. Professor Langethal 

 recommends it for a change after Sainfoin-pastures fail. It furnishes 

 not quite as much but an earlier fodder. 



Holcus lanatus, Linn. 



Velvet-grass or Meadow-Softgrass, also known as Yorkshire-fog. 

 Europe, North-Africa, Middle Asia. Indigenous in Norway to lat. 

 63 34'. A well-known and easily disseminated perennial pasture- 

 grass, of considerable fattening property. For rich soil better grasses 

 can be chosen, but for moist, moory or sandy lands and also for forests 

 it is one of the most eligible pasture-grasses, yielding an abundant 

 and early crop; it is however rather disliked by cattle as well as 

 horses. One of the best rural grasses in recently cleared forest- 

 ground, not like Cocksfoot-grass and particularly Rye-grass apt to 

 be attacked by caterpillars; also suited for suppressing bracken-ferns 

 after they have been burnt down. Recommendable also for newly 

 drained land. Does thrive according to the Rev. H. Kempe in the 

 hottest and driest regions of Central Australia. The chemical analysis 



. made in full spring gave the followg results: Albumen, 3*20; gluten, 

 4-11; starch, O72; gum, 3'08; sugar, 4'56 per cent. (F. v. Mueller 

 and L. Rummel). 



Holcus mollis, Linn<$. 



Creeping Softgrass. Of nearly the same geographic range and 

 utility as the preceding species. Particularly adapted to sandy forest- 

 land. Grown in Norway to lat. 63 7' (Schuebeler). 



Holoptelea integrifblia, Planchoii. ( Ulmus integrifolia, Roxburgh. ) 



The Elm of India, extending from the lowlands to sub-alpine 

 regions. A large tree, with timber of good caiality. Foliage deci- 

 duous. 



Hordeum andicola, Grisebach. 



Argentina. Pronounced by Prof. Hieronymus as an excellent 

 pasture-grass of the Sierras. 



Hordeum deficiens, Steudel. 



The Red- Sea Barley. One of the two-rowed barleys cultivated in 

 Arabia and Abyssinia. Allied to this is H. macrolepis, (A. Braun),. 

 a native of Abyssinia. 



Hordeum distichon, C. Bauhin.* 



Wild from Arabia to Central Asia (A. de Candolle). Cultivated 

 as early as the stone-age (Heer). The ordinary Two-rowed Barley. 

 To this species belong the ordinary English barley, the Chevalier, 

 the Annat, the Dunlop, the Long-eared, the Black, the Large, the 

 Italian and the Golden barley, along with other kinds. A variety 

 with grains free from the bracts constitutes the Siberian- and the 

 Haliday-barley, which however is less adapted for malt. Dry barley- 

 flour, heated at the temperature of boiling water during several hours 



