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with shorter leaves and of a lighter green color. It is too low to be valuable 
except for grazing, though it makes a fine, sweet hay, much like crab hay, 
ut of finer quality. It is invaluable for pasturage, forming a elose turf and 
driving out almost all other plants. It grows in sandy soil, preferring a little 
moisture, but growing well without it. At Apalachicola, I found the bulk of 
the pasturage composed of Panicum serotinum. I know no popular name for it. 
Little crab grass" would be appropriat 
PANICUM VISCIDUM. (See Maiden cane.) 
PANICUM WALTERI.—A plant of fertile woods, much more common in baie middle and 
upper country than near the coast. Resembles P. commutatum, but is ev very 
cattle grazing in fields where it do It is common drip in in the South. 
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hay of good weed 3 C. Mohr thinks it one of the best of the Paspalums. 
PASPALUM DISTICHUM.—A common plant of ditches, borders of ponds, and river 
banks. It is a tender aaien grass, sending up abundant leafy shoots; but, 
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ing shoots which root at each joint, making the plant an effective sand binder. 
. At Apalachicola I a that cattle cropped the upright stems of this variety, 
but left the creeping on 
5 FURCATUM M Di . is much Sun Louisiana grass in appearance and 
habi 
of growth, but is larger in every w t grows in moist soil, often along 
pine-barren streams, or along ditches by Pediat. From the root are seut out 
short 1 shoots, which creep along the ground and root at the joints, making 
a close turf. I have seen it only in small quantities, but it should make excel- 
lent pasturage, being juicy and tender. It is said to be much esteemed on the 
prairies at Opelousas, La., where cattle fatten kei : rapidly. It is valueless 
for hay, the leaves being mostly near the grou d the stems almost naked 
and wiry. It is a plant a the fact pine-barren A 
PASPALUM LÆVE.—A common species in the South, growing in fields and meadows 
and along roadsides. Has some value as an element of the native pasturage, 
but soo 
PASPALUM MEMBRANACEUM. —Noticed at Mobile and at Jacksonville in moist, sand y 
soil along railway tracks. It is a small grass, but is very — vae scene. 
d t to make excellent pasturage where it grows in As 
it is a perennial, with creeping rootstocks, it should be valuable in » permanent 
meadows where there is sufficient moisture. For that purpose it might be 
mixed with Louisiana grass or with Panicum serotinum, if able to hold its own 
with them 
PASPALUM PLATYCAULE (Louisiana grass).— This grass is highly prized in the low 
country, though apparently not generally known as “Louisiana grass t pre- 
moist, sandy, open ground, in such situations forming a close, tendar turf. 
porting a dozen or so of cows in fine condition. At Savannah I saw it ge 
and better than at any other point x 
PASPALUM PLICATULUM.—Grows in tufts in dry, sandy, open ground in the pine. A 
barrens. I saw it from Mobile to Savannah. It is said to furnish fir good | 
