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We have pastures of two and three hundred acres extent 

 in this fine grass : these arc divided into ten or twelve acre 

 pastures, and, when one is eaten down, the stock are shifted 

 into the other. 



9. Cynosurus in'dicus, L Dutch Grass. 



This is a low grass, seen only in the summer months. The 

 stalks are numerous from one root, and the leaves of a very 

 dark green colour. It is thought to be a more hearty food 

 for stock than Guinea grass ; when made into hay, it smells 

 very fine, and is used in the keeping of race horses. 



10. Schoenus secans, N. — Cutting Grass. 



Cutting grass is frequent in woods and thickets; the stalks 

 are triangular, and serrated like a file, which will cut not 

 only the hands and legs of the unwary traveller, but even his 

 clothes, as if done with a knife. 



The seeds are round, shining, ponderous and farinaceous 

 and are like those of millet grass. 



TRIANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 

 11. Holcus saccharatus, L. — African Millet. — Guinea Com. 



This is cultivated as food for man and beast. It mav be 

 sown at any time of the year, and repeatedly cut down till 

 August, when it is suffered to grow up, and is ripe by Christ- 

 mas. 



The stalks are as thick as a walking cane, the leaves of the 

 gramineous kind, and the whole plant is sometimes twenty 

 feet high. The blossoms are numerous, small, and grow on 

 a spike. There are several bunches on one stalk ; the seeds 



