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Aristida tuberculosa Nutt. Long-awned Poverty-grass. 
A rigid, much-branched grass, 12 to 18 inches high, with long-bearded spikelets. 
Found in similar situations with Aristida stricta, and equally valueless. 
Aristida virgata Michx. Beard-grass. 
Similar in habit and appearance to Aristida siricta and of about the same agricul- 
tural value. 
Arrhenatherum avenaceum. (See Arrhenatherum elatius.) 
oy pri elatius M. & K. Tall Oat-grass; False Oat-grass; Tall Meadow 
grass; Evergreen-grass; .Oat-grass; Grass-of-the-Andes; French Rye-grass. 
(Fig. 13.) 
A loosely tufted perennial, 2 to 4 feet high, W from Europe as a fodder 
ass and now quite generally distributed o over the regions east of the Missis- 
winter grazing and for hay. In California 
it is spoken of in the highest terms, par- 
ticularly for its drought-resisting quali- 
ties, It does not form a very compact turf, 
and when sown should be mixed with other 
grasses, It grows rapidly, blooms early, 
a large yield, and on good soils three or 
season. It is best sown in the spring, but 
ished by stock, but later in the season it is 
not touched. On rich, clayey loam this 
grass has made a yield of 17,015 pounds of 
green fodder, 6,380 pounds of hay, and 
13,612 pounds of green aftermath per acre. 
When sown alone, the amount of seed to sow-per acre is 5 to 6 bushels. Owing 
to the structure of the seed, it may be sown deeper than most other grasses. 
Price of seed, quoted from New York catalogues, $3.25 per bushel, or $18 per 100 
pounds. 
Arundinaria gigantea Chapm. Cane; Large cane. (Fig. 14.) 
This is the grass which forms the well-known canebrakes of the South. It is peren- 
nial, with woody stems 10 to 30 feos high, and 3 leaves, which furnish 
sh 
Fig. 14.—Cane. (Arundinaria gigantea.) 
i sands of animals have almost 
no other food. The fodder fursished; however, en little more than sustain life, 
and is of no value for fattening or for mileh cows. Attempts made to cultivate 
this grass have not been successful. The plant blooms but once, and when the 
seeds mature the cane dies. The canes are used for many purposes, such as 
fishing rods, scaffolds for drying cotton, splints for baskets, mats, ete. 
Arundinaria macrosperma. (See drundinaria gigantea.) 
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