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hollows of the internodes of many of the larger bamboos. All sorts of te 
tural € — for spinning cotton and wool or for reeling silk a 
often constructed entirely from bamboos. Very many articles of household use 
or „ de: from bamboo have become articles of commerce in Europe 
and this country. So many and varied are the uses of the several species of bam- 
boo that it is possible to mention here only a small part of them. Bamboos are 
nue by seed, but more often by cuttings. Plants from hss seed do not 
ain a sufficient growth t o admit cropping under 10 or 12 year 
eruceformis Host. Slough-grass (in Montana); Wild Timothy (in 
Beckmannia 
Nevada). (Fig. 16.) 
A stout, erect, subaquatie perennial, 1 to 4 feet high, with narrow, densely 
fü 
Fic. 
(Beckmannia eruce- 
ig.) 
formis. 
owered panicles. The leaves are broad and flat, and the stems are coarse but 
tender, becoming somewhat woody when old. It grows 
along the banks of streams and rivers and frequently follows 
ihe course of the irrigating ditches. When young, however, 
this grass is palatable and readily eaten by stock. In some 
portions of the Northwest, to which region this grass is con- 
fined in this country, it often occurs in such quantities as to 
constitute an important part of the forage of low pasture 
lands. It may be recognized by the peculiar, spike-like 
branches of the panicle, which have some resemblance to 
the rattles of a rattlesnake, and for this reason it is some- 
times called */^Rattlesnake-grass." It is deserving of trial 
under cultivation for low meadow lands in the more Northern 
States 
Blepharidachne. Desert-grass 
There are two species of „ both low, tufted grasses, 
peculiar to the barren and desert regions of Nevada, Arizona, 
* and New Mexico. They do not ide to be at all common, 
but in the regions where they occur possesses 
some value for wandering stock, and és doubtless play 
art in affording a bite for starving cattle. 
Bouteloua curtipendula. (See B. racemosa.) 
Bouteloua eriopoda Torr. Woolly-jointed Grama. 
This is one of the s of gps so valuable for grazing in 
New Mexico and Texas. The slender stems are 1 to 2 feet 
high, and from its hit habit of growth it forms dense 
£ and — pasturage wherever it grows abundantly. It 
16.—Slough-grass. ^ is a c n grass along the Del Norte and in the region 
tines chic station and the waters of the Gila; also in the 
Olympia, Guadalupe, .. Eagle mountains, and on the 
Staked Plains in Texas. The woolly-jointed stems at once serve to distinguish 
this from the allied species of Bowteloua. 
Lag. Black Grama (Texas); Bristly Mesquit, Muskit, or Mes- 
Bouteloua hirsuta 
kit-grass; Tall Grama. (Fig. 17.) 
This 
grass is very similar in habit, appearance, and qualities to Blue Grama, and 
is frequently found associated with it, although, generally speaking, it is much 
less abundant. - 
Torr. Blue Grama (Texas); Mesquit-grass; Muskit-grass; 
uteloua oligostachya 
Grama; Black Grama (New Mexico); ; Mosquit-grass; Buffalo-grass (in Montana); 
White (Fig. 18.) 
te Grama; Crowfoot Grama. 
