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arranged in two divergent spikes at the top of the stem. - ‚Widely. distri. 
buted : throughout tropical America and Africa, Introduced to kan ylon, 
and East Indies. In Jamaica this Pe forms Pe, excellent * si a 
pastures in the warmer parts of the island. It spreads on 
covers the ground to the exclusion of everything else. In C 
grass was described by Dr. Thwaites as growing well in as m p 
laces exposed to the. € and it retained its fresh green. appearance 
even. during. tho. dry season ftis a somewhat coarse grass, but when 
and. horses. . In. Singapore this — is equally; valued, and it deserves 
to be more widely "uem in mis ien 
Paspalui distiohiünf, y» (B. n — Sw.) —* sit fin ‘bars bg 
* Water couch.” A’ coarse, somewhat tall grass, 2 creeping” thizonies 
and convolute, rarely’ flat, lence The flowe arranged’ in two 
spikes. ‘It is a €ommón grass in pastures ant wet places in -tropical 
and extending also ito temperate countries. ‘Tt is ‘said to be 
naturalized in South-Western France. Probably indigenous’ to Austt 
Pas 
diffused annual’ grass, found i all warm Hoot BF the. es th 
amazing rapidity. Known in the United States as “ Crab grass, 
it is recognised as the most useful of all pasture grasses, it makes a 
sweet hay, and horses are exceedingly fond of it.. Cotton and corn- 
fields in the south are often so overrun with it. that the hay which 
might be sécured would be more valuable than the. ‘original crop. In 
Fiji, NAT and Ceylon it is widely diffused near gardens and 
plantation the M ges country it is “the best Lint Lio wis 
frit, 
Panicum -palliiatd Aitch. á Hemsl. E fairey DC.) isa get 
of P.sanguinale described: by Aitchison as sthecbest fodder gps fon 
cattle in the Kuram Valley of nee 
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