190 FARM GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES 
abundance of feed on medium to moist soils. The 
stems grow two and one-half to three feet high, but 
are not leafy enough to produce much hay. It is de- 
cidedly bunchy in habit, each clump producing a great 
mass of succulent root leaves which are greedily eaten 
by all classes of stock. Prof. S. M. Tracy, for many 
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FIG. gI—PLAT OF BLUESTEM IN THE GRASS-GARDEN AT 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
years director of the Mississippi Experiment Station, 
regards this as one of the valuable pasture-grasses of 
the South. Its seed has recently been made available 
in the markets. 
GUINEA-GRASS (Pantceum maximum) and Para 
grass (Panicum molle) are two grasses that have at- 
tracted considerable attention in southern Florida in 
recent years. “They are the standard grasses of the 
West Indies, where the green forage, particularly from 
guinea-grass, furnishes most of the roughage fed in 
