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used as a stimulant and antispasmodic for neuralgia and rheumatism, and also 
in the adulteration of attar of roses. A. citratus (referred to by Hackel as 
India and Ceylon and yields a fragrant oil called both oil of verbena and lemon- 
grass oil (William Hutchinson). Rusa oil, or ginger oil, is obtained from 4. 
schenanthus, according to Hutchinson. 
Andropogon scoparius Michx. Little Blue-stem; Indian-grass; Purple Wood- 
grass; Wire-grass; Brown-grass; White Bent; Broom Sedge; Broom-grass; Moun- 
tain Sedge-grass. (Fig.9 
A rather slender perennial, 1 to 3 feet high, more or less branched above; the slender 
acemes are single and terminate the culm or its branches. This grass has a 
similar range to the Big Blue-stem, extending over nearly all of the United 
States east of the Rocky Mountains, and in the prairie regions 
with the Big Blue-stem and Bushy Blue-stem. It is common 
in the mountain districts of the South, and is valued there for 
grazing. In the West it is cut for hay, but is not so much 
thought of as the Big Blue-stem. In South Dakota this is one 
of the most common grasses in the basins of the Bad Lands. 
Andropogon sericeus R. Br. Blue-grass. 
A ino slender branching grass, 1 to 3 feet high, native of the 
er regions of Australia. It is very productive, and is 
e known as blue- . Regarded by the Australians 
as one of the best of the indigenous grasses for pasturage or 
hay making. 
dropogon sorghum Brot. Subspecies sativus Hack. Includes 
the lived varieties of sorghum. 
PAT sorghum includes many varieties, a number of which 
een recognized by some authors as distinct botanical 
specie under the genus Sorghum; others, including Hackel, 
have referred them all to the genus Andropogon. Hackel has 
elaborately worked out the botanical characters of the species 
d characterized the known varieties, giving to each a tech- 
nical name. It is not necessary to follow out his classification, 
hoo is Mi put good. In the works of others there is 
uch confusion in the botanical classification, and still more 
in in the oi of the common or English names. Thesame 
name has been applied to different varieties, and the same 
Fra. 9.—Littlo Blue- variety has often been designated under various names. All 
em 3 ties the forms are of Eastern origin, and have arisen probably from 
a common stock through ages of cultivation. From varieties 
of this species are obtained grain, which furnishes nutritious food for man and 
domestic animals, as poultry; sirup and sugar in commercial quanti- 
ties are obtain rom the saccharine varieties. The variety saccharatus, or 
Chinese sugar- , yields about 13 per cent of sugar. Brooms and brushes, 
used in all civilized countries, are made from the inflorescence of the variety 
known as broom corn, and all furnish fodder of more or less value for farm stock. 
In Africa alcoholic drinks are prepared from the grains, and useful coloring pig- 
ments are contained in the fruiting glumes. The variety known as Kafir corn, 
which grows to the height of 4 or 6 feet, has been cultivated with great success 
as a fodder plant in the semiarid regions of the West. In faet, all the sorghums 
will grow in drier climates or under more trying conditions of drought than 
Indian corn. They may be cultivated in much the same way as that e , but 
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