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On the Vegetation of the Jhelum District. 



[No. 3, 



Viola cinerea, Boiss. 

 Polycarpcea corymbosa , Lam. 



Herbage eor Cattle. 



Of grass especially cultivated or allowed to grow for the purposes 

 of pasturage, there is none in the Jhelum tract, for all land 

 capable of producing grass is at once placed under some kind of 

 corn crop. All kinds of cattle are chiefly sent to feed upon the 

 low hill ranges, or upon certain tracts of land covered with the 

 Baer, (from a low thorny shrub to a tree of good size, Ziziphus 

 mcmmularia, Mulla, and Z, jujuba) the cattle feeding on the leaves 

 and fruit. Of such Baer jungles there are several in the Jhelum 

 tract, made up chiefly of the Baer, but also partly of the "Kureel"" 

 and " Bakoor," with an occasional " Kekur" and perhaps rarely a few 

 bushes of the Grema betulifolia. Camels manage to pick up their 

 fodder, (which must necessarily chiefly consist of the SaecJiarum 

 spontaneum,') from the islands on the river. This 7 however^ except 

 in a young state, seems to be too hard a grass for cattle generally. 

 Green corn is even cut for horse fodder, and should a cavalry regiment 

 be stationed at Jhelum, the grass-cutters of the regiment have to 

 go down the river as far as Russool, (which is situated fifteen miles 

 further down ? on the opposite bank of the river,) for the purpose of 

 obtaining grass. 



The grass-cutters of the usual inhabitants get what grass they can 

 along the roadsides, between the edges of fields, or footpaths, &c. and 

 that which is chiefly collected is the Doob, Cynodon Dactylon > ,'Pem, 



Pennisetum einchroides. 



Aristida depressa, Retz. 



JDigitaria sanguinalis. 



Panieum Petiverii, Trim 



Panieum procumbens, Nees. 



Panieum antidotale, Retz* 



Aristida murina^ Cav, 



Lappaga biflora, 



JEragrostis Poceoides, Beauv. 



Daetyloctenium JEgyptiacum* 



Koeleria phleoides, Pers. This may be called the cold weather gram? 

 as it flowers as early as February, and if cultivated,, might be of great 

 xm as fodder during the cold weather months. 



