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stands well the trampling and grazing of both horses = D but sheep are 
too close feeders, and where these range it soon disappea 
Danthonia cunninghamii Hook. f. 
A large tussock grass of New Zealand, growing from sea level to an altitude of 2,500 
feet. It has rather stout stems 3 to 6 feet high, and large, nodding puntales 10 
to 18 inches long. A strikingly handsome ornamental grass, affording a large 
amount of coarse fodder. It is of value in the manufacture of paper. (Kirk.) 
Danthonia flavescens Hook. f. Yellow Tussock; Snow-grass. 
A stout grass 3 to 5 feet high, with leaves 3 to 4 feet long, and open panicles 10 to 18 
tricts. It is rather coarse for fodder, but serves for winter grazing, and the 
leaves are largely used in paper mills and for thatching (Kirk). The leaves of 
the less robust D. raoulii, also a native of New Zealand, are used for similar 
purposes. 
Danthonia pilosa R. Br. 
A slender and rather rigid tufted perennial 1 to 2 feet high, with very narrow or 
filiform leaves 8508 contracted panicles 2 to 3 inches long. A native of New Zea- 
land and Australia. Mr. T. Kirk says of this grass that it is excellent for mixed 
pasturage, cid a compact turf. It is very hardy, of rapid growth after erop- 
ping, and affords a good yield of nutritious herbage. 
Danthonia semiannularis R. Br. Wallaby-grass. 
A somewhat variable grass, 2 to 3 feet high, native of Australia, occurring both in 
the coastal Sape ànd i in the — interior. It is a perennial and is said to be 
one a f Australia, stock of all kinds being remark- 
ably fond of it. If cut when 1835 coming into flower it makes good hay. It 
great variety of soils, but is most productive on moderately rich, 
strong loams. It seeds freely, and the grain is easily harvested 
Danthonia sericea Nutt. Silky Oat-grass; Taller Wild Oat-grass; Silky-flowered 
Oat-grass 
This is a rather stout, erect grass, 1 to 3 feet high, with usually pubescent sheaths 
and rather rigid leaves. It ranges from Massachusetts southward to Tennessee 
and North Carolina in the mountain regions, where it oceurs along the lower 
foothills and crests of the higher ridges. It grows in isolated tufts, and is com- 
paratively rare. Of no agricultural value. 
Danthonia spicata Beauy. Wild Oat-grass; White-top; Old Fog; June-grass; 
Poverty-grass. (Fig.34. 
This is our most common species of pure extending from Canada southward to 
the Gulf of Mexico. It grows 
is usually indicative of eee eee lands. In New England it frequently 
occupies neglected fields, as broom sedge does in the South. It is a grass of no 
agricultural value. 
Danthonia unispicata Thurb. Mountain Oat-grass. 
This is a low grass, 6 inches to a foot high, usually associated with California Oat- 
grass, — confined to similar er where it helps to make up the herbage 
of ountain meadows and par. 
Deschampsia ceespitosa Beauv. Tufted Hair-grass; Has 
A native perennial, ranging from New England to Pennsylvania, and westward to 
the P: oast. It yields an inferior, iecit harsh forage, and is not eaten 
by stock except when young. It has a record of producing 10,209 pounds green 
and 3,318 pounds dr e per acre. Johnson, in his dk on Beech grasses, 
says of the tendency of Tufted Hair-grass to form tussocks: “In the economy 
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