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Stenotaphrum americanum, Kunth. Las dimidiatum, ~ Trin). Pie 
ménto grass "- (Jamaica), * Buffalo grass” ' (Australia). : erennial 
creeping s, with wide-spreading rhizomes, seldom more ie a foot 
high... Each joint. of «the rhizome bears a tuft of smooth, pale-green 
leaves. = The cle to 4 inches long, with a flat jointed rachis. 
in 
This is an excellent grass for binding sea sand and loose soil of river 
anks, It flourishes on dry limestone . pits in, Jamaica, and, affords 
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nourishing The 63 pastured und r. the. pimento trees, _ Hence 
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region of Central Australia, where it was introduced by Sit F. von 
Mueller. It was successfully established also at .AScension; and it 
flourishes on the singularly arid volcanic rocks of that island. The 
plant has been grown for many — in pots and under the — in the 
cool Economic House at Kew 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Tho dder Grasses of Northern India. By J. F. Duthie. B.A., 
F.L.S. Soc. 1888. 
Agricultural Grasses of, the United. States. Bx Dr. George Vasey. 
Washington, 1889. 
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oe of New South. Wales Wy Fred. "Fass ERES te Sydney, 
usirations of North- Br amass Yol. L ; Grasses: of: the 
South-West... By Dr. George Vasey. | «Washington, 
Select. Plants for Industrial. Culture, By Sir Ferd. von Mueller, 
K.C.M.G. Melbourne, 1891, 
Improvement of Indian AES By John angana Voelcker; 
Ph.D., F.I.O. . London, 1893. (Chapter IX. Grass. Graz ing. Hay- 
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- COCCXXI.—DECADES KEWENSES. 
PrayTARUM NOVARUM IN HERBARIO ‘Hort: Reon CONSERVATARUM. 
aliurus orientalis, 77emsl. ‘Rati i bae dbi: 
nid floriferis semper inermibus cinereis demum nigrescentibus, foliis 
datis acuminatis vix acutis basi obliquis subcuneatis vel rotundatis 
