. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. aboundsin the bones of extinct mammals. Strips of water-less desert, known as travesias, stretch across thepampas; these travesias are destitute of all vegeta-tion with the exception of a few bushes, and aremarkedly distinct in geological character. The soilof the pampas is more or less impregnated with salt,and saltpetre abounds in many places. The wildanimals of the pampas are horses, oxen (both intro-duced by the Spaniards), nandous, and skins of the horses and oxen, and the flesh ofthe latter, form
. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. aboundsin the bones of extinct mammals. Strips of water-less desert, known as travesias, stretch across thepampas; these travesias are destitute of all vegeta-tion with the exception of a few bushes, and aremarkedly distinct in geological character. The soilof the pampas is more or less impregnated with salt,and saltpetre abounds in many places. The wildanimals of the pampas are horses, oxen (both intro-duced by the Spaniards), nandous, and skins of the horses and oxen, and the flesh ofthe latter, form a most important item in the tradeof this region. The half-white inhabitants of thepampas are called Guachos (q. v.). The whole areaof the pampas has been estimated at about 1,500,000square miles. PAMPAS GRASS {Gynenum arrjenteum), agi-ass which covers the pampas in the south ofBrazil and more southern parts of South America,and has been introduced into the United States as anornamental plant. It is quite hardy, and its tuftshave a splendid appearance. The leaves are six or. Pampas Grass [Gynerium argenteum). eight feet long, the ends hanging gracefully over;the flowering stems ten to fourteen feet high; thepanicles of flowers silverj white, and from eighteeninches to two feet long. Tlie herbage is too coarseto be of any agi-icultural value. The male andfemale flowers are on separate plants; in panicles;the spikelets 2-flowered, one floret stalked, andthe other sessile; the palerc of the female floretselongated, a^\^l-shaped, and woolly,—Another species PAMPHLET-PANAMA. of the same geiuis, G. scxccharoides, also a Braziliangrass, yields a considerable quantity of sugar. PAMPHLET (variously derived from Spanishpapaleta, sli]) of i)ai>er on which anything is written,and paginafi/dJa, threaded page), a small book con-sisting of a sheet of paper, or a few sheets stitchedtogether, but not bound. It generally contains ashoi-t treatise on some subject, political or otherwise,whic
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