214 NATIVE FOKAGE PLANTS 



NATIVE FORAGE PLANTS IN TENNESSEE 



PART I"V. 



CONTRIBUTED BY DR. A. GATTINGER, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. 



The object of this contribution is to impart some specific knowledge 

 about those plants which constitute the natural food supply of the 

 grazing animals. I had never expected that my casual and accidental 

 observations in this particular direction would ever come into pub- 

 licity, and, besides the request for this met me unprepared. Yet I have 

 considered it my duty to accept Mr. Killebrew's friendly and polite re- 

 quest, as an opportunity to conduce some to the public welfare and to 

 general information. 



During a thirty years' residence in this State, for many of them 

 with the ample opportunities of a country physician, I have devoted the 

 time unoccupied by professional duties, to the study and collection of the 

 flora of this State, which I have traversed on botanical explorations 

 from the summit of the Blue Ridge to the sandy banks of the mighty 

 Mississippi. 



The grasses and leguminous plants enumerated I know, from 

 their aspect in nature, their mode of growth, time of inflorescence, the 



