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attractive, and has longer and more graceful spikes. C. barbata appears to be 
the only one generally eultivated, but there are several native species which 
are quite as ornamental. C. gracilis, a native of Central America and Mexico, is 
another species occasionally cultivated for ornament. 
Chloris glauca Vasey. Smooth Chloris. (Fig. 28.) 
A strong-growing grass, with diffusely spreading and ascending stems, 2 to 4 feet 
long, bearing 10 to 25 slender terminal spikes. Native of Florida, growing on 
brackish marshes and along the borders of cypress swamps. This is a hand- 
some species, well deserving the attention of the florist, and although not at 
present recognized as possessing any agricultural value, it produces a large 
amount of comparatively tender herbage and may prove to be a desirable fodder 
plant for certain localities along the Gulf coast. It has made a good growth 
under cultivation on clayey soil at Washington, D. C. 
Chloris petræa Swz. Seaside Finger-grass. 
This somewhat ornamental grass is found in damp soil along the coast from Florida 
to North Carolina. It has clustered, erect stems, 1 to 2 feet high, which are ter- 
minated with 3 to 5 rather slender spikes. Of no recognized agricultural value, 
but it is as attractive as many of due grasses grown in the gardens as orna- 
mentals. 
Chloris verticillata Nutt. Branching Foxtail; Windmill-grass. 
A low, spreading perennial, with upright flowering ja 6 to 20 inches high. 
Th spikelets are in slender spikes ich are crowded near the 
apex of the stems, and become Widaly-uptoading ve maturity. This grass is 
common in many plaees in central Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, northward to 
Kansas, and by some is spoken of very highly as an excellent grass for grazing, 
and one not easily tramped out. The arrangement of the spikes gives the grass 
an odd and somewhat exp appearance, making it of some use as an orn 
mental species for gardens. It is a good turf-former. 
Chloropsis blanchardiana. (See Trichloris blanchardiana.) 
Chrysopogon nutans. (See dndropogon nutans.) 
Chrysurus cynosuroides. (See Lamarkia aurea.) 
Cinna arundinacea Linn. Indian Reed; Wood Reed-grass; Sweet Reed. 
A tall, leafy grass, 3 to 7 feet high, native and frequent in shaded swamps and damp 
ods, or along streams in wet meadows. For such places it may possess some 
agricultural value, as it yields a large amount of excellent hay where growing 
abundantly. 
Cinna pendula Trin. Slender Reed-grass; Drooping Reed-grass. 
This grass resembles the above somewhat, but is usually more slender, the more 
nodding panicles fewer iape and it is, for the most part, confined to moist 
woodlands in the Northern Sta 
Coix lachryma Linn. Job’s Tears; Tear-grass; Corn-beads. 
This grass is a native of southern Asia and is oceasionally cultivated in this country 
for ent or as a curiosity. It is cultivated for by some of the hill tribes 
of India, and supplies a staple article of diet of the Tankhul Nagas of Manipur. 
The female flowers is are inclosed in a nearly globular, capsule-like 
covering, which is very hard and becomes samiy white with age. In some coun- 
rosaries, In China this grass is cu to some extent, because the fruit is 
believed to be valuable as ade and antiphthisis. It is a hardy 3 2 to 
3 feet high, with broad 1 fl The “seeds” 
may be obtained from any of the leading seedsmen, 
