216 NATIVE FORAGE PLANTS 



CHAPTER XVIIL 



ANDROPOGON TRIPSACUM SETARIA PANICUM PA8- 

 PALUM GYMNOSTICHUM ELYMUS AIRA DAN- 

 THONIA TRITICUM. 



ANDROPOGON, L.-- ( Andropogon.) 

 ANDROPOGON SCOPARIUS, L. 



Commonly called broomsedge, a great eye-sore if it takes 

 possession of meadows, but a good pasture grass before it 

 shoots up its culms, after which time stock will touch it no 

 more. It disfigures, with its straw-bundle-like tussocks, the 

 pleasant verdure of a spring landscape, and the half decayed 

 stalks, if mixed with new hay, incline to make it mouldy. 

 Another such compatriot is 



ANDROPOGON PURCATUS, Muhl.--(Alao called Broom Grass) 



Taller and stouter than the former, the culm terminated 

 with 2-4 digitate flower spikes, in the manner of crab 

 grass. It is not so much at home in open meadows and 

 old fields but prefers open woods, fence corners and out-of- 

 the-way nooks. A third associate is the 



ANDROPOGON VIRGINICUS, L.- 



Closely resembles the first, but the flower spikes are near- 

 ly wholly wrapt up in leaf-like grass blades or sheaths, and 

 the spikelets are very much silky bearded. It is found in 

 all sorts of localities, dry and wet, but rather dispersed over 

 widely distant localities, and consequently not so common 

 as the first two. 



