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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



cording to MuhlenbtTor. This is No. Ixxvii of 

 Sinclair's list, in ihe Appendix to Sir E. Davy's 

 Agricultural Chemistry, and ia there called creep- 

 ing panic grass. 



Mr. Pleasants says,—" The lolre grass has al- 

 ways been considered as Hffording most, excellent 

 herbage, and as a good improver of Ihe soil. 

 When It can be euhdued, the land produces fine 

 crops. But ilie difficullv is in destroying it." 

 For (tiriher notice of this grass, vide Farmers' 

 Rpffisier, ix. "295, 395, 568. 



20. Cyperus lepers. Nut grass, of E. Flo- 

 rida. 



21. C. hydra. Nut grass of North and South 

 Crirolina. Cocoa grass, of Lonisiana. These 

 two grasses are excessive nuisances where Ihey 

 get possest-ion of cultivated land, and seem to be 

 the most difiRcult of all grasses to exterminate. 

 They multiply by numerous luhers on the roots. 

 The firel is lijund from New York to New Or- 

 leans, the second is not found north of Virtrinia, 

 and is mi:ch more troublesome in the Carolinas 

 than the other. In E. Florida the first predomi- 

 nates. For remarks upon the extirpation of this 

 pest, vide Farmers' Reyi^ter, ix. 534. Elliott, 

 in his Botany of South Carolina and Georgia, 

 says that the only efTectual method of destroying 

 this plant (C. hydra) is by such continued ex- 

 posure of the tubers by ploughing or hoeins that 

 Ihey at las! lose their vitality in repealed fiuluros 

 to take root. 



22. D.ictylis glomerata. Orchard grass. 

 Seems to be known in the United States exclu- 

 sively under this name. In Sinclair's list, it is 

 called Cock's foot grass. For renvtrks upon this, 

 see Farmers' Rciiister, viii. 227, 414, 626. ix. 54, 

 and Sinclair's acconnt in the Appendix to Davy's 

 Agricu'tiiral Chemistry, 



23. Digitaria sanyuinalis. Crab grass of 

 Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Carolinas. I^in- 

 ger grass of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, 



24. D. filiformis. Similar to the preceding and 

 sometimes confounded with if. 



25. Eleiisine Indica. Goose grass In VWaiuln,* 

 (and North Carolina?) Crowfoot \n South Caroli- 

 na. fFiregrassin Mafsachusells. Dog'' stall grass 

 in Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg calls it crab grass, 

 crop grass and yard grass, but the two first names 

 are commonly appropriated to No. 23. Perhaps 

 these two grasses are sometimes confounded, as 

 there is a similarity in the formation of the fl )vver 

 spikes. Darlington says that cattle and hogs are 

 fond of it. 



26. Elymus Virginicus. Wild rye in North 

 Carolina. A plant rather common and very ap- 

 propriately named, but nei'her valuable or trouble- 

 some, as I know of 



27. Eriophorum Vlrginicum, Cotton gra$8 in 

 North Carolina and Massachusetts, Common in 

 low, grassy and wet lands, and readily distinguish- 

 ed by its head of dirty white floral appendages, 

 somewhat resembling a small mass of cotton. 



28. Holcus lamatus. Feather grass, \n North 

 Carolina and Pennsylvania. White timothy in 

 Pennsylvania, Fe/we^gmss in Massachusetts. Dr. 



* " Goose grass" is one of the vulgar names ap- 

 plied in Virginia to poa pratensis, described after- 

 wards, and numbered 86.— Ed. F. R. 



Muhlenberg calls it Salem grass. In England, 

 calle(] meadow soft grass, and Yorkshire grass. 



29. Leeisia oryzoides. Rice grass, of the 

 Carolinas. Cut grass, of Virsinia, according to 

 Muhlenberg. Cut grass, wild rice, of Pennsyl- 

 vania. Has some resemblance lo rice, and the 

 maririns of the leaves are extremely rough ; 

 hence the above names. Darlington calls it " a 

 worthless grass," but a different estimate is lorm- 

 ed of it by a writer in Farmers' Register, ix. 167. 



30. Leersia Virginica, White grass, of Virgi- 

 nia, according to Muhlenberg. Very similar lo 

 the preceding, but more slender. 



31. Loliuin temulentum. Spelt of Virginia, for 

 an account of which see Faimers' Register, ix. 

 569. 



32. L. perenne. Rye or ray grass of England 

 and some parts of the United States. For a no- 

 tice of it, see Farmers' Register, ix., 570. I have 

 never met with these two grasses in North Caro- 

 lina. 



33. Muhlenbergia diff"nsa. Nimble Will, of 

 Kentucky, according lo Mr. Lewis, iu the Ken- 

 tucky Farmer, vol. iv., no, 27, 



84. Phalaris Americana. Spring grass, at 

 Wilmington, N. C. This is an early, luxuriant 

 grass, growing in the swamps and rice fielda 

 along the Cape Fear, and is brought^inlo Wil- 

 mington in small bundles in the spring, and sold 

 by the negroes from ihe rice fields. It would be 

 recognized by any one as near akin to the Canary 

 grass (Phalaris Canariensis) which it resembles. 



35. Plileum pratense. Timothy, of Ihe stales 

 south of New York. Herd's grass, of New York 

 and New England. Meadow caVs tail grass, of 

 Great Britain. 



36. Poa pratensis. Blue grass, of Kentucky 

 and North Carolina. Green sward, of Virginia- 

 Green, grass, of Pennsylvania and Maryland. 

 Spear grass and meadow grass, of Pennsylvania. 

 Smooth stalked meadow grass, of Great Britain. 

 For remarks upon this valuable grass, see Far- 

 mers' Register, viii., 198, 517, 650, 694, and ix., 

 54, 115. 516, 518. 



37. P. trivialis. Rough stalked meadoio grass, 

 of Great BritaiVi. This resembles number 36, but 

 can be distinguished by its rough stem. It is said 

 to be very valuable, but I do not know of its ex- 

 istence in the southern states, 



38. P. annua. May grass, in some parts of 

 North Carolina. This appears like a reduced 

 form of number 36, and is a fine lawn grass. It 

 seems to be Ibund throughout the United States. 



39. P. compre.-=s^. Blue grass, in England, 

 Virginia and Pennsylvania. Called wire grass 

 iu some places, but not in Virginia or North Ca- 

 rolina, English writers sometimes call it flat 

 stalked meadow grass. In Massachusetts 1 have 

 heard it called Leghorn grass, its flat stem adapt- 

 ing it to the manulacture of grass bonnets, for 

 which it has been used. See Farmers' Register, 

 ix.,513. 



40. P. serotina. This plant I have never met 

 with at the souib, though it is common at the 

 north. Dr. Muhlenberg s lys it is called red top 

 in New York, but I suspect only by being con- 

 founded wiih the true red top, or No, 1 of this 

 list, I presume it is the red top described by Mr. 

 Welles of Ma.=sachusetts, (Farmers' Register, 

 ix. 129,) under the name &f Poa pratensis, 



41. Scirpus triqueter. Sword grass on the 



