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growing most abundantly on low, black soils, which are well supplied with mois- 
ture. It is cons makes an exellens pasture grass, and when well established 
d without injury. It is particularly valuable 
as furnishing excellent late summer and autumn feed, during which period it 
makes its principal growth. 
Paspalum distichum Linn. eA Joint-grass; Silt-grass; Seaside Millet; 
Water Couch (in Australia). (Fig. 6 
A low, creeping vet resembling Bermuda-grass. Itis common in the Southern 
Stat ong the seacoast and in the interior, extending southward from Vir; 
ginia to the Gulf, por westward to Texas, Arizona, southern California, and 
northward to Oregon. It occurs throughout the tropical regions of both the 
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Fig. 67.—Knot-grass. (Pas- Fic. 68.—Smooth Paspalum. (Paspa- 
palum distichum.) e.) 
Old and New World. It grows in more or less sandy soils around the margins 
of ponds and along river banks, and in such places it often does good service in 
binding soils subject to wash, and the grass ean well be recommended for this 
use. lts stems are sitae succulent, extensively creeping, rooting at the 
nodes, The leaves are tender, affording excellent grazing. The upright stems 
are a few inches to a foot high, and bear at their summits two slender spikes. 
This character at once serves to distinguish it from Bermuda, which has several 
spikes at the apex of the flowering culm 
Paspalum exile Kipp. Fundi or Fundungi. 
A slender annual, about 2 feet high, with nsnall y three terminal racemes 3 to 4 
inches long. Cultivated in Sierra Leone, where it is native, for its grain, which 
is used for food. é 
