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of nature these tufts, so unsightly and disfiguring to the landscape, are valuable 
by contributing to elevate and solidify low lands liable to be overflowed b 
abundant in the Rocky Mountain region, where it doubtless serves to a consid- 
erable extent the purpose here mentioned. In England it is sometimes used by 
the farmers to make door mats. In Germany it furnishes the “Lime-grass” used 
in upholstery. Price of the seed in New York, $22 per 100 pounds. 
Deschampsia cespitosa var. Rocky Mountain Hair-grass. 
An ornamental grass like the last (D. cespitosa), growing in tufts, but bearing fewer 
owering stems and many more and longer (18 inches) dark-green leaves. After 
eutting, on August 5, new leaves were thrown up so quickly that in one week 
the plot was green again. (James Fletcher.) 
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Fie. 34.— Wild Oat-grass. Fic. 35.— Tufted Hair- grass. (Deschampsia 
(Danthonia spicata.) flexuosa.) 
Deschampsia flexuosa Griseb. Tufted Hair-grass; Wood e (Fig. 35.) 
A slender perennial grass, 1 to 2 feet high, with numerons very fine root-leaves and 
lelieate capillary panicle. It grows in tufts like D lapi cespitosa, and is 
more € e Eastern States than that species, but is even less valuable 
for meadows. It is, however, of some value for a pastures, as it will 
North Carolina and Tennessee. Its range westward is limited. It has a peut i 
of producing 12,209 pounds of green, and 3,318 of dry hay per acre, The price 
- of seed quoted in New York catalogues is $15 per 100 pounds. 
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