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■ers are lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, the flowering glume extending 

 into a line point or short awn. 



During several years past this grass has been sent to this Depart- 

 ment, chiefly from Louisiana and Texas, and has been much com- 

 mended. Many years since the same grass was distributed and ex- 

 perimented with under the name of Australian oats, or Bromus 

 Schraderi. It is not adapted to use in a country with severe win- 

 ters, and hence did not give satisfaction in all placess. Mr. C. Mohr, 

 of Mobile, says of it : 



Only of late years found spreading in different parts of this State ; makes its ap- 

 pearance in February, grows in tufts, its numerous leafy stems growing from 2 to 3 

 feet high ; it ripens the seed in May ; affords in the earlier months of spring a much- 

 jelished nutritious food, as well as a good hay. 



It is said to have been introduced into Georgia by General Iver- 

 son, of Columbus, and by him called rescue grass. The favorable 

 opinion which it at first received does not seem to have been well 

 sustained in that State. 



Professor Phares, of Mississippi, says : 



This grass is also called Bromus Schraderi, B. Willdenovii, Ceratochloa u nioloides, 

 and Festuca urdoloides. It is an annual winter grass. It varies in the time of start- 

 ing growth. I have seen it ready for mowing the first of October, and furnish fre- 

 quent cuttings till April. Again, it may not start before January, nor be ready to 

 cut till February. This depends on the moisture and depression of temperature of 

 the fall, the seeds germinating only at a low temperature. When once started, its 

 growth after the successive cuttings or grazings is very rapid. It is tender, very 

 sweet, and stock eat it greedily. It makes also a good hay. It produces an im- 

 mense quantity of leaves. On loose soil some of it may be pulled up by animals 

 grazing it. ' 



Lolium, Linn. 



Spikelets several-flowered, solitary on each joint of the continuous 

 rhachis of the simple spike, placed edgewise against the rhachis, the 

 glume wanting on the inside, the outer empty glume nearly as long 

 as or longer than the spikelet ; flowering glumes rounded on the 

 buck, not keeled; palet shorter, two-keeled. 



1. L. arvense, With. Darnel. Introduced from Europe. 



2. L. perenne, Linn. Ryegrass. Introduced and cultivated. 



L. perenne, var. Italicum. Italian Rye grass. Introduced and 



cultivated. 

 A perennial grass, introduced from Europe. The culms are 2 to 

 3 feet high, very leafy, and terminating in a loose, spike-like panicle, 



