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northern portions of the United States and ranges around the world in the cooler 
temperate regions of the North. It is a tender grass, readily eaten by cattle, and 
doubtless possesses some agricultural value. The seeds are easily gathered and 
the propagation of the grass in wooded pastures or parks might be advantageous. 
Milium multiflorum. (See Oryzopsis multiflora.) 
Miscanthus fuscus Anders. 
A rather handsome grass of the plains of northern India, 4 to 8 feet high. It is 
chiefly used for thatching material, and writing pens are said to be made from its 
stems.” (Duthie.) 
Miscanthus sinensis Anders. 
A handsome, showy grass, 3 to 6 feet high, used for the adornment of lawns, ete. 
It has seda been known to florists under the name of Eulalia japonica. The 
long and v umerous lower leaves are usually marked with transverse or 
1 white bands. The rather delicate and somewhat fan-shaped pani- 
cles, if cut when just expanding, are valued for dry bouquets. 
Monanthochloé littoralis Engelm. Salt Cedar. 
A creeping grass, with hard, almost woody stems, and crowded subulate leaves less 
than an inch long. A spray of this grass bears a striking resemblance to a 
— yt cedar, "ie d common name. It grows on the salt marshes and 
soil and sand binder. It is too hard and rigid to be of any value for forage. 
Muhlenbergia capillaris Kth. Seaside Hair-grass; Muhlenberg's Hair-grass. 
An upright grass with unbranched stems, about 2 feet high, very long and rather 
rigid leaves, and diffusely branched capillary o This grass grows in tufts 
or bunches in dry, sandy soil, open pine woods, ete., throughout the Southern 
States. It is of no agricultural value, but the 1 of the E whic 
are often purplish-tinged, make it an attractive object for bouquets 
Muhlenbergia diffusa Schreb. Nimble Will; Wire-grass; Drop-seed-grass. (Fig. 
95.) 
A low, wap iin branched grass growing on dry hills, in woods, and ise 
ady waste grounds about dwellings. The leafy, wiry stems, which a 
ie e dé 18 8 long, spring from app creeping and rather rs 
rhizomes, which make a turf very difficult to break up. hen young, this 
grass is readily eaten by all kinds of stock, but ino it matures it is so tough 
that few animals will touch it. It ES really very little agricultural value, 
and some look upon it rather as a weed. is native from southern New Eng- 
land to Iowa, Michigan, and southward, 8 in the latter part of summer. 
Muhlenbergia A Kth. Saccatone; Grama. 
This is a strong, firmly rooted grass, 3 to 4 feet high, with rather long and rigid 
leaves, and a narrow TE often exceeding a foot in length. It is frequent in 
New Mexic i it i 
the rich valleys in Arizona , and on rich bott ti 
often eut for h It is à coarse obolus rass and by the 
settlers is classed with it under the péteral name of Saccato In Arizona it 
forms the more common “hay” that one finds in the townsand wa d stations, being 
pulled by the Mexicans or Indians and brought in on the baeks of donkeys or 
on carts. There are many species of Muhlenbergia in the southwestern part of 
the United States and northern Mexico, and doubtless many of them are of con- 
siderable agricultural value. Muhlenbergia virescens is a soft and leafy species 
wing in Jen on the higher slopes of the mountains in Arizona, and with 
Poa fendleriana forms the chief herbage of the so-called deer parks” of the 
mountains. (Pringle.) 
