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astonished to find that it contained a considerable quantity of materials that 
the digestive organs would be able to convert into sugar and peptones, and 
that it would pass into their systems as nourishment, so that it is here not 
only a useful grass to fix sand, and grow where other grasses would not, but 
the conditions of this climate had made it a useful grass for live stock 
on places where other grasses would not live. 
Poa aquatica.—This strong-growing water-grass is another of the useful 
grasses for wet, damp lands where other grasses will not grow, and should 
be sown as a mixture upon such wet places, as its season of greatest 
growth differs from that of others here described. 
Poa aquatica of Australia.—This Australian water-grass is very different 
to the European Poa aquatica, but, having received the seed under this 
name and grown it, I found it a grass that, in damp situations, grew very 
fast in the hottest summer weather; it is therefore good to introduce it, as 
its season of strongest growth is different to the other water-grasses. It 
grows scarcely at all during cold weather in this colony. 
Fanicum longistylum.—This is a grass that should be introduced into 
permanent mixed pasture, as it grows during the autumn, when many other 
grasses are at rest, and continues here to throw up its singular seed-heads 
far on into the winter. 
Paspalum scrobiculatum is also another very useful Australian grass, | 
which grows well with me during the summer, and it would do well if intro- 
duced into permanent pasture; both stock and sheep like it. The Australian 
variety differs in several respects from the Paspalum scrobiculatum indi- 
genous to New Zealand. 
Phalaris bulbosa or P. minor.—This excellent perennial grass produces 
a large quantity of fine sweet foliage, very readily eaten by stock, and which 
quickly puts them in good condition. It keeps green far into the winter, 
even ripening its seed-heads in the late autumn. It is well worthy of 
introduction into permanent pastures, and its seeds, which are quite as 
large as the Phalaris canariensis, will, if this grass is made into hay, add to 
its nutritious qualities. 
Danthonia penicillata.—A narrow-leaved native grass of Queensland, that 
seems in this climate to have changed its habits, and grows well through 
the autumn and winter, during which seasons its fine green foliage is picked 
out from the other grasses and eaten readily by cattle and sheep, and is 
useful in mixed pasture from its growing during the season when the many 
other grasses are at rest. 
Festuca dimorpha is another of the grasses that it would be advisable to 
“introduce, from its habit of winter growth, which makes it of value when 
feed is less abundant, 
