110 KAKMEK'.S HOOK OF 



Cattle and horses eat it greedily whether green or dry. If 

 matured for seed before cutting, the stalks become so hard 

 that they are worth no more than stripped, dry corn stalks. 



Planters, on the bottom lands of the Mississippi river and its 

 tributaries, who buy hay, would find themselves much more 

 cheaply, abundantly and satisfactorily supplied by sowing small 

 lots of this or Johnson grass on their. dryest, richest lands. 



OENCHRUS. 



1. C. TRIBUBULOIDES, Hedgehog, or Bur Grass. 



This grass, with prostrate stems .one or two feet long, spikes 

 one or two inches long and having tei. or fifteen involucres arm- 

 ed with spreading spines which become a hard burr, is found un 

 the sands along the coasts and at some places many miles inland. 



2. C. ECHINATUS, Cock-spur is found in fields and on waste 

 lauds further inland; the stems one or two feet long; spike 

 three or four inches ; involucre purplish, with spines and barb- 

 ed bristles. These are worthless weeds, and the burs with their 

 rigid spines pierce painfully the bare feet of children and have 

 to be removed by the hands or an instrument. 





 STENOTAFHRTJM. 



S. AMERICANISM, Hard Grass. 



This perennial evergreen grass makes excellent winter pasture; 

 but it is limited to damp sandy soils along the coast, its culms 

 are creeping, flattened, with erect flowering branches six to 

 twelve inches high ; leaves two to six inches long; spikelets by 

 pairs, one sessile the other pedicelled, sunk in excavations of 

 the flattened rachis. 



RoTTBCELLIA. 

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R. RUGGSA, and R. COU'RUGATA. 



These are found in barrens, swamps and ponds, from two to 

 four feet high, and R. cylindrica in dry sandy soil in Florida 

 and are probably worthless for stock food. 



MANISURUS GRANULARLS is a foreign grass, one or two feet 

 high, now found in fields and pastures in the southern States, of 

 little value. 



ANDROPOGON. 



A. .VIRGIMCUS, Viiginia Beard Grass, Broom Grass. 



This pla-nt is often called 'broom sedge. 7 But this anomalous 

 compound, word is properly excluded from all dictionaries and 

 is recognized by no standard author. It should find no place 



