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Yer. — Pay-'U hurri, Matari-hussal (old woman's hair), Kole hussal, 

 Lamp, Lapri dhauU. In tlie N.-W. P. it is named Lappi, and its 

 Tellingi name is Shilpurso-kalli (Roxb.). 



It is a more rigid grass than the preceding, and with a broader and 

 more open panicle. It is common in dry and stony places, and not 

 mnch used as a fodder grass. In this respect it may be ranked as 

 the last, i.e., it is eaten only when young. 



A. setacea, Retz., Obs., IV, 22 ; Dalz. and Gibs., Bomb. Fl., 295. 



Yer, — Mothi'kussal. It is a taller grass than the last two 

 species, found growing in various parts of the Bombay Presidency, 

 in Ceylon^ Africa, Brazil, in Southern Spain and Sicily. The culms 

 are turned at the nodes. Leaves filiform, convolute, 3-6 inch long. 

 Panicle rather dense, of a straw colour. Glumes unequal, and the 

 awns very long and spreading. 



Like the preceding, common on dry hilly ground. As fodder it 

 is useless. Cattle do not eat it. Taties and brooms are said to be 

 made of its long wiry culms. It is most troublesome to those who 

 have to walk through it, the ripe spikelets fall off, acting as irri- 

 tating substances. 



Is this species a variety of A. depressa ? 



A. royleana, Trin., Hup. 8tip., 160. 



Ver. — Pandari-kussal, B usJii-kussal, Pandri-kussal. It is a small 

 grass, 8-11 inch high, occasionally higher. Sheaths longer than the 

 internodes. Leaves short, flat, glaucous. Glumes 6-7 lines long, 

 acuminate, subulate, whitish, nearly equal. Awns very long, about 

 l-|-2 inches long. Common all over India. In some parts of Poona, 

 Satara, Sholapur, and Bhooj it is so common that the places where 

 it grows in extensive patches appear to be of a dull grey or 

 glaucous colour. 



Not used as fodder. 



Stipa, Linn. Gen. 



S. aristoides, Staff., Nov. Sp. Culm slender, erect or slightly 

 bent at the base, two feet high, glabrous, or hispid. Sheath shorter 

 than the internodes, glabrous, rather striated. Sicula very short, 

 truncated ? Nodes glabrous. Leaves 5-7 inches long, filiform, rigid, 

 convoluted, glabrous. Panicle 6-12 inches long, diffuse, rachis 



