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a synonym of the celebrated Cusha grass. Sir W. Jones and others, 

 ex. Birdwood, Bombay Products, p. 128. 



The following extracts taken from Dr. Vasey's " Report on the 

 Grasses of the South/' pp. 26-28 (1887), show how highly valued 

 is this grass in America. " In Louisiana, Texas, and the South 

 generally, it is and has been the chief reliance for pasture for a long 

 time, and immense herds of cattle on the southern prairies subsist 

 principally on this food It has the capacity to with- 

 stand any amount of heat and drought, and months that are so dry as 

 to check the growth of Blue-grass (Poa arachnifera) will only mak® 

 the Bermuda grass green and more thrifty. " (Professor Kilbrew.) 



" Bermuda grass grows on any kind of soil in Texas, but will not 

 stand the trampling of stock on loose sandy soil. It is hard to beat 

 for a grazing grass, though long continued droughts cause it to dry 

 up.-" (Mr. M. M. Martin, Central Texas.) 



'' While this is the most northern limit of Bermuda grass, it is 

 also the most southern limit of the Bine-grass. The two growing 

 together on the same land produce a most perfect pasture, as the 

 Blue-grass is green, all the fall, winter, and spring months, while 

 during the heat of summer, which prevents the growth of the 

 Blue-grass, the Bermuda flourishes. The two together in good 

 strong soil make a perfect pastui'e good all the year round." 

 (Mr. J. B. Wade, N. Georgia). 



" The time is not far distant when all the rough feed consumed on 

 plantations will be made of this grass, and when the planter will 

 consider his hay crop of more importance than his sugar and cotton. 

 No other grass will yield such an amount of valuable hay, surpass 

 it in nutritious qualities, or support on an acre of pasture such an 

 amount of stock." (Mr. Affleck in Professor Kilbrew's " Grasses of 

 Tennessee.") 



Colonel Otley has written a long article on the cultivation of this 

 grass as a fodder for Cavalry in the Madras Literary Journal. This 

 article is copied in Johnson's ' Grasses of India' with a few useful 

 observations. 



Chloris, Linn. 



C. Barbata, Swar., Fl. hid., PI. 200 ; Dalz. and Gibs., Bomb. Fl., 

 296, G. decora, Nees., in Royle's Herb. ; Andropogon barbatus, Linn, 

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