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ing. As it constantly sends up flowering stems from the joints, 

 the lattermath contains more nutrition than the first crop at 

 the time of blooming. The more I see and know of its growth 

 in the southern States the more am I pleased with it. 



TRICUSPIS. 



T. SESLEROIDES, Tall red-top Grass. 



This is a perennial grass with long rigid leaves and culms, 

 from three to five feet high, crowned with large diffuse panicles. 

 The scatterered, pediceled, purple spikelets give the grass 9, fine 

 appearance. It grows on dry, sterile soils. Although not very 

 nutritious nor desirable in cultivation, yet where it grows nat- 

 urally and one has nothing better, it may be worth cutting and 

 curing for feeding cattle in conjunction with concentrated food 

 in winter. Its comparative value will be seen from Mr. Col- 

 lier's subjoined analysis : 



ANALYSIS OF TRICUSPIS SESLEROIDES. 



Oil, 1.81 Amylaceous cellulose, 26.45 



Wax, .24 Alkali extract, 12.63 



Sugars, 6.98 Albuminoids, 6.32 



Gum and dextrin, 3.16 Ash, 4.55 

 Cellulose, 37.86 



100.00 

 ANALYSIS OF ASH. 



Potassium, 8.13 Sulphuric acid, 4.04 



Potassium oxide, 38.49 Phosphoric acid, 1.58 



Sodium, Silicic acid, 37.52 



Sodium oxide, Chlorine, 7.39 



Calcium oxide, 2.32 



Magnesium oxide, .53 100.00 



ERAGROSTIS. 



E. REPTANS, Creeping Meadow Grass, is a beatiful annual, 

 with long creeping roots, stems six to eighteen inches high, pan- 

 icles one or two inches long, spikelets ten- to thirty-flowered, 

 leaves nearly awl-shaped one or two inches long, flowers in Ju- 

 ly, whole plant pale green, and found in low, sandy places, 

 gravelly banks of streams, fence corners and open pastures. It 

 is relished by cattle, but not of much value in agriculture. 



2. E. PO..EOIDES, Strong-scented Meadow Grass, is handsome 

 also. The variety E. megastachia, Pungent Meadow Grass is 

 very pretty, but emits a disagreeable odor. The stems are pros- 

 trate, geniculate at the base, ascending ; panicles contracted ob- 



