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seabeaches. In such situations the plants are very small, the erect, flowering 
stems being quite short, and long, pa shoots (sometimes 6 feet long); _ 
at every joint, are 5 In better land—a light, loamy soil seems to 
it best—the tendency to send out enn ereeping shoots is checked, the ipie 
growth is much pu, and the amount of leafage increases correspondingly, 
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ing on sandy river banks and ocean beaches it is, apparently, the most valuable 
sand-binding grass of the Southern States. It is sometimes planted by road- 
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FIG. 2.—Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon). 
sides and upon embankments for this purpose, and is a favorite lawn grass in 
most towns and cities, forming a close, fine turf, and remaining green in the 
ns. 
BROOM SEDGE. (See Andropogon.) 
CENCHRUS ECHINATUS.— This grass, known as “spur grass” in Florida, is a c : 
weed of cornfields and of cultivated land generally in that State and elsewhere 
in the far South. When young, before the bur-like coverings of the flowers are 
developed, it is said to make excellent hay, being tender and nutritious, and pro- 
