378 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
seins 3 = reece to the plant: “This grass was perceived by Mr. 
other than =o Agrostis linearis of Kornic, Rerzivs, 
and sad Wits —the Durva of the Hindoos,—which the late Sir 
Wiru1aM sg the fourth volume of the Asiatic —— hes, has 
celebrated for ‘the extraordinary beauty of its flowers, and its eetness 
and nutritious quality as pasture for cattle. We cannot but t romatl 
what extraordinary eg « eeected, every e 
or other, and car eir fame passes away ‘like the morning cloud,’ 
while the ase know, perhaps, better than 
cattle, ae of th flo % sistas of the common, never-failing herbage to 
which they are both so much indebted.” 
10. ELEUSI’NE, Gaertn. Cran-arass. 
{From Eleusis ; where Ceres, the goddess of harvests, was worshiped.] 
1. E. In’pica, Gaertn. Culm e a ss umbent ; spikes 2-4 or 
6, linear, straight, dipitate ; spikelets lance-ovate, about 5-flowered. 
Inpran Exeustne. Dog’s-tail Grass. Crow-foot, Crab or Yard Grass. 
smooth, branching at base. -12. inches s long, rather waded and ee at 
the base of the culm, li estes or ngly pilose 
loose, striate, pabeben, pilose at throat ; ; ligule very short, truncate, minutely 
dentate. 2- 4, sometimes 6 pried 1), bet or 3 oi ee inches long ; rachis 
Spikelets imbricated, smooth. te, with > te —iro re upper 
one a third shorter, with 2 keels. ogee reine figeatiak dark brown, t& 
versely rugose. 
Farm-yards, sie le abbas, sip Native of India. Fl. A ats ec 
Fr. September — October. ae 
extensivel 
Obs. This grass is : 
ie telally be. be seen Le fee area age ila and won yar, sont 
farm-houses during the f summer,—where it grows 
thick, and forms a fine fhooss for ie in oe which had been shesiests 
naked and ref css: and hogs are fond of it,—and Mr. Ex.iorr 
commends it y; but in this region it rarely grows in mowing 
grounds to any coat iblis exten 
Pea is ong jit (E. Coracana, Gaertn. yy ie in cultivated 
of Natchenny, upon 
I Theliege it_is cat in this country, biti ben mont om j 
worth i aan. = 
pot ant : 
