852 Transactions.— Botany. 
all summer during the driest weather, much relished by the stock, and a 
very desirable grass for permanent pasture, bears a great quantity of seed, 
and as it lays many of its stems along the ground that escape the grazing 
of the stock, it thus increases and spreads. It is very nutritious and 
fattening, and well worthy of a place in pastures. 
Panicum decompositum.—A fast-growing abundant grass, grows well 
under trees, forms a thick sole, and during summer is a rapidly increasing 
plant, able to ripen seed in large quantities through all the autumn: grows 
from spring to late autumn. 
Panicum orizynum.—A quick-growing grass, much to be recommended if 
quite closely kept fed down, but it must not be allowed to form seed-heads, 
as the long awns upon its seed might injure the cattle; if closely cropped 
would be very useful, as its abundant leaves contain a large amount of 
nutritive elements. 
Pennisetum italicum.—This, although an annual, will be found very use- 
ful by the farmer for one of the grasses for a rotation crop; it bears an 
abundance of very fattening foliage, which is three feet high ; it forms large 
bunches of leaves and tall seed-stems, and is greedily eaten by cattle and 
other stock, quickly making them fat. 
Pennisetum glaucum.—ts also an annual, and distinguished from the pre- 
ceding by its glaucous colour, taller herbage, and later growth; in the 
season of its greatest vigour it is a very fattening grass, and should be 
sown by farmers and others who only require an annual grass; it may be 
fed down very closely, quickly growing up again. 
Paspalum distichum.—A useful grass to sow in damp places or along 
the banks of water-courses. It yields an abundance of nutritious herbage 
during the warm weather that stock much approve of. It is a very superior 
grass, and should be widely sown in permanent pasture, more especially on 
damp lands or swampy meadows. 
Paspalum littorale.—A very good grass for sandy lands along the sea coast, 
and is there one of the best feeding grasses. 
Paspalum dilatatum.—A. valuable perennial pasture grass, as it yields an 
abundance of herbage, it fattens stock quiekly as they are fond of it; it 
holds its place so well amongst mixed grasses that it ought to be generally 
sown in permanent pasture. 
The preceding are a few grasses and fodder plants selected from my notes 
upon many hundreds of such plants as I have introduced, acclimatized, and 
experimented with during the past eighteen years, and although there is a 
great temptation to add largely to the number above described, yet a fear of 
wearying the members of the Philosophical Society, by adding many others 
D chui ain occasion, causes me to limit the number to those above 
