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RESCUE GRASS AUSTRALIAN OATS (Bromusunioloides.} (Winter 



Grazing.) 



This grass is a native of South America. It is an annual, but as it 

 seeds freely the young plants succeed the old ones so quickly that it is 

 practically a perennial. It supplies good grazing during the winter. It 

 grows from one to three feet in height. It makes its best growth during 

 cold weather and has come to be regarded as an excellent grazing grass 

 for the winter months. It resembles chess or cheat in its habits of 

 growth, and danger to agriculture may lurk in its introduction. It is 



Rescue Grass Brontus unioloides. 

 2. Panicle. 3. Upper leaf. 4. Spikelet. 5. Empty glumes, 6. Flowering glume. 



not therefore recommended for cultivation to the farmers of Tennessee. 

 The notice of this and the preceding grass is made as a warning rather 

 than as a recommendation. Farmers will never regret the exercise of 

 due caution in the introduction of new and but partially known grasses. 

 They have herd's grass and blue grass and wheat, rye, barley and win- 

 ter oats that will serve as winter pastures without taking the risk of intro- 

 ducing a strange grass with unknown qualities that may prove to be an 

 enemy. 



HAIRY FLOWERED PASPALUM (Paspalum ovatum or dilatatum. 



(Pastures.) 



This is a perennial, said to be a native of Brazil, and is considered an 

 excellent grass for late pastures, as it makes its principal growth in 

 autumn. Dr. Gattinger, of Nashville, mentions it in his Tennessee Flora 

 as being one of the grasses found in open ground and in grass plots. It 



