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NATIVE FORAGE PLANTS 



A showy grass, but too hard to be eaten by stock. Fre- 

 quent in light soil. July — August. 

 VILFA VAG-IN-anFLORA, Torr- {Southern Poverty Grass). 



Annual, culms slender, 6-12 inches high, leaves, convolute, awl-shaped, 

 1-4 inches long. Panicle single and spiked, the lateral and often the 

 terminal concealed in the.sheaths. 



Growing in the poorest places, and in the streets of Nash- 

 ville. 

 CINNA ARUNDIHACEA, L— {Indian Meed.) 



Spikelets, one flowered much flattened, crowded in an open flaccid 

 panicle, glumes lanceolate, acute, strongly keeled. Flower manifest- 

 ly stalked in the glumes, smooth and naked; the palets much like the 

 glumes, the lower longer than the upper, short, awned or mucronate on 

 the back. 



A tall, sweet-scented grass, with ample terminal panicle. 

 Damp woods. Flowering and fruiting, July to October. 

 Worthless. 



AGROSTIS CANINA— L. Brown Bent-Grass. 



Has an erect, slender, spreading panicle i 

 creeping, perennial root ; slender, erect stem ; 

 and linear leaves ; glomes longer than the palea. 

 a bent awn on the palea ; greenish spikelets, 

 afterwards turning brown, whence its name ; 

 flower but one in a spikelet ; open panicle ; 

 • stamens three. 



It is a native of Europe, but intro- 

 duced into the United States where it 

 now is occasionally found in meadows. 

 It flowers in middle summer, and is of 

 no agricultural value. A variety of it 

 (Agrostis Rupestris, Chapman) occurs 

 in the higher Alleghany mountains, 

 where it is indigenous. 



Agrostis Ctmina, 



