
          89.
[68. Agrostis]

the United States produce half as many 
[added: species of this genus] as all the rest of the world besides, 
there being only 40 [crossed out: species] enumerated 
by Persoon. In India there are 6 
species, of wh. [which] 2 produce spikes like 
Paspalum or Digitaria and another 
species with the same anomalous 
habit in the isle of St. Helena; there 
is 1 species in Japan, 1 in Senegal, 
1 in Teneriffe, 1 at the Cape of Good 
Hope, 3 in Arabia, 1 in New 
Zealand, 4 in the West India islands, and 
all the rest in Europe, of wh. [which] 
several of the southern species are 
equally common to Barbary. Not 
one species from South America, 
Northern Asia, or New Holland.

This genus affords to the agriculturist 
some of the most important 
objects [crossed out: for] of cultivation both for pasturage
and artificial meadows, among 
these the A. stolonifera [crossed out: illegible] with its 
numerous varietys [varieties] is considered as the 
most usefull [useful].

Hab. [Habit] in sterile naked plains and arid argillaceous
soils, nr. [near] Fort Mandan on the Missouri.

        