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is propagated by euttings or sets, and quickly covers the most sandy yards with 
a dense, carpet-like growth. In South America the creeping stems are employed 
in medicine as a diuretic. 
Stipa avenacea Linn. Black Oat-grass; Feather-grass. 
An erect perennial, 1 to 3 feet high, with m narrow del v and a loose panicle 
with a few long-awned spikelets. It grows in dr lin open woods along 
thicket borders, ranging from New England to the se aa States and west- 
ward to Texas and Wisconsin. Of no agricultural value. 
Stipa comata. Needle-grass; Feather-grass; Bunch-grass; Needle-and-Thread. 
This is one of the bunch grasses common in the Rocky 
ountain region, growing on the dry mesas and 
foothills. It is a rather stout, leafy perennial, 1 to y 
3 feet high, with a panicle usually partly inelosed in 7 
the upper leaf sheath; the slender awns of the spike- y f 
lets are 4 to 6 inches long and flexuose. This grass y j 
has some value, affording forage of Lus. quality in yi 
the regions where it grows abundant 
Stipa elegantissima Labill. 
A native of Australia, with erect, branching stems 2 to 
3 feet high, narrow leaves, and loose panicles 6 to 8 
incheslong. Theaxis and Tong; thread-like ep 
of the panicle are elegantly plumose with e, 
Spreading hairs, MM it highly Hisce. 
Cultivated in garden: 
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Stipa pennata Linn. Feather-grass. 
A native of Mice Europe, 1 to 2 feet high, grow- 
ing in dry, open ground, and often cultivated in 
gardens as an de ted the very long, slender 
awns being clothed with spreading, silky hairs, pre- 
senting a very graceful plume-like appearance. A 
exi 
a variety of grass (Stipa pennata var. neo-mexi- 
| : n ws wild in the mountain regions of western Y Ni 
i Texas and Arizona. It is an elegant form of the AY | 
species, growing in clumps 6 to 12 inches in diame- » | 
ter, and is deserving the attention of the florist. FT | 
pa — —_ ee „ Yn. WM barediipe praia, 
A d  (Stenotaphrum americanum.) 
eastward through New we and Arizona to o Texas 
ne It is e on on the t ranges and on the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, 
M where it is regarded as one pid ihe most valuable of the native bunch grasses. 
Stipa spartea Trin. Porenpine-grass; Devil's Darning-needles; Devil's Knitting- 
needles; Spear-grass; Arrow-grass; Buffalo-grass (in the Saintes un region). 
EM Rather stout, 18 inches to 3 feet high, with long leaves and few-flowered panicles. 
nd twisted awns are 3 to 6 inches long, and at the — of the flower- 
ing glume is a long and very sharp-pointed eallus. When ure, the awned 
flowering glumes soon fall off, que 122 n arge, palo, arene -colored Danone 
empty glumes, which impart to ani 
e awns, when dry, are bent d very up twisted, but jeu ‘moiste tened 
they gradually untwist, a character which enables the seeds to bury themselves 
in the ground, this being possible on account of the very sharp callus at the base 
of the fruiting glume. The same character also renders the seeds of this grass 
