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little agricultural value. It is a good grass for binding loose sands or soils 
subject to was 
Eatonia obtusata Gray. Early Bunch-grass; Prairie-grass. 
A tufted perennial, 1 to 2 feet high, with flat leaves and rather densely flowered 
nodding panieles. Thisis a native species, growing usually in moist soil, and 
ranging from New York to California and southward. A tender grass, readily 
eaten by stock, which, when abundant, supplies considerable native forage of 
good quality. 
Eatonia pennsylvanica Gray. Eaton's-grass. 
A slender, pale-green perennial, not infrequent in moist meadows in the States of the 
Atlantic Slope. Tender and nutritious, and well adapted for cultivation in moist 
adows, 
Eleusine zgyptiaca. (See Dactyloctenium wgyptiacum.) 
Eleusine coracana Gertn. African Raced Ragi Millet; Korakan, Dagassa, and 
Mandua are Indian names for this 
An erect annual grass, 2 to 4 fi ie ean related to and mucheresembling our 
common crowfoot HE bahay indica), but of rather stouter habit and with larger 
tribes. In spite of the bitter taste of the flour, a kind of 
bread or unleavened cake is made of it. Beer is brewed 
from the grain in Abyssinia. Said to yield good crops, even 
ery poor soil, and may be cultivated in the same way 
and for the same purposes as millet. The seeds are marked 
with very fine, comb-like lines 
Eleusine indica Gertn. Goose-grass; Dog's-tail-grass ; Yard- 
grass ; Crow-foot-grass; Wire-grass; Crab-grass; Crop- Leg 
Dog’s-tooth-grass; Buzzard- ipe. Dutch-grass. AP dii 
ch 
A coarse, tufted annual, with erect or s li 
to 2 f igh; spikelets arranged a a nomher of apike 
which are clustered at the top of the stem. 'This grass is 
distributed throughout the warmer countries of the globe, 
of it as being nutritious and good for grazing or nen and 
for hay, but it is more generally regarded as a weed, 
often a troublesome one in door-yards or lawns. 
Elionurus hirsutus Munro. 
A perennial grass with rigid stems 1 to 2 feet high and slender, 
silvery-hairy terminal spikes. A characteristic desert-grass 
xd northwest India. It yields a fodder for elephants, Pra. M gee 
seed, once ee bájra flour, is largely consumed by th ye (Ely- 
tmt (Dut 
Elymus arenarius Linn. Sea Lyme-grass; Upright Sea-Lyme-grass. (Fig. 38.) 
A stout, coarse grass, 2 to 8 feet high, with Prem creeping rootstocks, smooth 
stems, long, rigid leaves, and dense terminal spikes 6 to 12 inches long. The — 
spikelets are about an inch long and three to four flowered. This grass is com- 
mon along the seacoast of no: northern Europe, our north Atlantic nn... 
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