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a limited extent for hay and, when young, for pasture; the panicles 

 also make excellent whisk brooms for brushing lint. In the Southern 



Figure 1200.— Reimarochloa oligostachya. Plant, X 1; two views of spikelet, and floret, X 10. (Curtiss 



3596A, Fla.) 



States (Virginia to Florida and even to California) P. distichum, be- 

 cause of its extensively creeping stolons, is useful for holding banks of 

 streams and ditches. 



