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Paspalum distichum, Linne.* 



From India to South-Eastern Australia. The Silt Grass. A 

 creeping swamp-grass, forming extensive cushions. It keeps 

 beautifully green throughout the year, affords a sufficiently tender 

 blade for feed, and is exquisitely adapted to cover silt or bare slopes 

 on banks of ponds or rivers, where it grows grandly ; moderate 

 submersion does not destroy it, but frost injures it ; it thrives well 

 also on salt marshes. 



Paspalum notatum, Fluegge.* 



Brazil and Argentina. This is one of the best of fodder grasses 

 there, forming a dense, soft, carpet-like sward on meadows, and 

 becoming particularly luxuriant and nutritious on somewhat saline 

 soil (Lorentz). 



Paspalum scrobiculatum, Linne. 



Through the tropics of the eastern hemisphere widely dispersed, 

 extending to South-East Australia. A valuable pasture grass. A 

 superior variety is cultivated in India for a grain crop. This grass 

 furnishes a good ingredient to hay. The stem sometimes attains a 

 height of 8 feet. Rosenthal pronounces it pernicious, perhaps 

 when long and exclusive use is made of this grass. 



Paspalum stoloniferum, Bosc. 



Central America. A fodder grass of considerable value. 



Paspalum undulatum, Poiret. 



North and South America. Noticed by C. Mohr as valuable for 

 fodder. A. Gray records it as annual. 



Passiflora alata, Aiton. 



Peru and Brazil. This Passion Flower and all the following (and 

 probably other species) furnish Granadilla fruits. 



Passiflora coccinea, Aublet. 

 From Guiana to Brazil. 



Passiflora coerulea, Linne 



South Brazil and Uruguay. One of the hardiest of all Passion 

 Flowers and with many others well adapted for covering bowers, 

 rookeries, and similar structures. Many of the equatorial species 

 come from mountainous regions and may thus endure temperate 

 clime. 



Passiflora edulis, Sims. 

 Southern Brazil. 



