256 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Holcus lanatus, Linn6. 



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

 grass. 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. Apt to overpower 

 better grasses, particularly also on lawns. 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. Bears continued grazing off extremely well. 

 Also thrives according to the Rev. H. Kempe in the hottest and 

 driest regions of Central Australia. Mr. A. R. Crawford considers 

 that this grass is much under-valued and states that pasture-animals 

 feed on it greedily : a land-owner in New England (N. S. Wales), 

 who has 1,000 acres under grass-culture, prefers there this Holcus 

 with Dactylis glomerata to any other grass tried. Particularly dan- 

 gerous for the spreading of the ordinary rust-fungus, Puccinia 

 graminis (Uredo linearis). The chemical analysis, made in full 

 spring, gave the following results: Albumen, 2'20 ; gluten, 4*11 ; 

 starch, 0'72 ; 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 T [Schuebeler]. 



Holoptelea integrifolia, Planchon. (Ulmus integrifolia, Roxburgh.) 



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

 regions. A large tree, with timber of good quality and yellowish- 

 grey colour. Foliage deciduous. 



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. 



