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Lamarckia aurea. 
Common along road sides. 
Si vinpus maritimus. 
Common in wet places. 
Ae dager involucratum, var. heterodon 
sionally found in wet soil, but not eaten very freely. 
ee airoides. 
Common on dry soils, but not vatoell, Commonly called ‘“ Guay- 
atta.” 
Cyrodon dactylon (Bermuda grass). 
Common in dcor-yards here and still more common at Pasedena, 
10 miles east of here. It does well, but needs constant inriga- 
tion. 
Poa pratensis (Kentucky blue-grass). 
Does not succeed as well as Bermuda, the soil being too sandy. 
Brodium, 
_ The = settlers claim that this has always been abundant here, 
ughout the whole region from here to Colorado it is 
eocken tof as “coming in from California.” 
Reno, Nevada, July 16. 
Reno is on the Truekee River, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada 
Mountains, ina basin some 10 miles across. The soil is fertile, and pro- 
duces good crops of alfalfa and redtop where irrigated, but there are 
‘occasional spots, sometimes of several acres in extent, which are too 
stony for cultivation, and which are almost barren, except a scattering 
growth of Artemesia, Atriplex, and Sarcobatus 
Alfalfa and redtop are the only plants grown for hay. Timothy is 
abundant along ditch-banks and other places where it can have con- 
stant moisture, but as it gives but one crop yearly, while alfalfa gives 
three, it is not grown much for hay. It is generally claimed that a ton 
of alfalfa is equal to a ton of any other hay for fattening purposes, but 
for work-horses it is not worth more than half as much as timotliy. 
The most abundant native forage plants are Agrostis vulgaris and sca- 
bra, Avena Jatua, Elymus triticoides (?), Poa tenuifolia, Oryzopsis cuspi- 
data, Vicia Americana, Elymus condensatus, Trifoliuminvolucratum, Spor- 
shots asperifolius and Erodium cicutarium. The last named is known 
_ through the entire Southwest as ‘ Filaree,” and has become very conm- 
mon here within the last five years. It was noticed also at Trinidad, 
Albuquerque, and Santa Fé, N. Mex.; Wadsworth, Nev.; and at Ogden 
and Salt Lake City, Utah. It is valued very highly on account of its ~ 
early Spans growth, and it continues to grow throughout the season, 
. ing it has moisture. It is eagerly eaten by all kinds of stock, 
- even = it is cheolcameesd dried and the plants are blown about by the 
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