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it often comes up in cultivated fields after the removal of eorn or other grain 
crops, it is spoken of in the highest terms as a hay-producing grass. 
Panicum turgidum Forsk. 
À coarse, hard grass, 1 to 2 feet high, with short leaves and small 5 A native 
of the East. In Egypt a kind of bread is made from the grai 
Panicum virgatum Linn. Switch-grass; Wild Red-top; Black Bent. (Fig. 66.) 
- tall, native perennial, 3 to 5 feet high, with strong, creeping rootstocks, long, flat 
leaves, and ample, spreading panicles. When young this affords good grazing, 
but at maturity Mos — e hard and Fel worthless for fodder. It 
ranges from Mai to the Gulf and westward to the Rocky Mountains. 
It is 3 common near the coast in the sandy soils bordering the marshes, 
plays animportant part there, oftentimes, in preventing the drifting of sands 
yields a large amount of hay of very good quality. a Y 
Pappophorum laguroideum Schrad. 
A handsome ornamental, 3 to 5 feet high, with narrow, 
plume-like panicles a foot or more long. It is a 
native of Mexico, and has been successfully grown 
from the seed on the grounds of the Department 
of Agriculture. It is worthy of introduction as an 
ornamental for gardens and lawns because of the 
beauty of its pale straw-colored panicles. 
Pappophorum wrightii S. Wats. Purple-grass. 
A slender and apparently annual grass of western 
Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, growing on the 
open plains and among the foothills of the moun- 
tains. It has short, narrow leaves and narrow, 
densely-flowered heads or panicles, which are softly 
bearded and grayish or purplish. It is said to be 
fully equal to Grama or Buffalo-grass in nutritive 
value, and more palatable to horses or mules. 
Paspalum boscianum Fliigge. Purple Paspalum. 
A rather stout perennial with ascending branching 
stems, 2 to 3 feet high, long, flat leaves, and numer. 
ous racemes crowded near the summit of the culm 
and its branches. It is a native of the Southern Dueb A 
States, growing in moist grounds, preferring cum ge 
rather heavy soils. Like other species of Paspa- 
iderabl the exclu 
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sion of other grasses. It yields a good. bulk ‘of sweet hay, but is rather slow 
in drying. 
Paspalum dilatatum Poir. Hairy-flowered Paspalum; Large Water-grass. 
A rather coarse, leafy perennial, gorneg in clumps 2 to 5 feet high, bearing near 
the snmmit of the stems two to ten more or less spreading racemes or spikes of 
crowded, — spikelets. It 8 a native of Brazil and possibly was originally 
ced. ha ¡bo to ——* States (where it has become mum widely distrib- 
uted) fr ough it may 85 native here. It ranges northward 
from the Gulf to southern Virginia and Tennessee, and is to Texas, 
