. The grasses and grasslands of South Africa. Botany; Grasses. GO ridges. The most noticeable feature is the very small amount of chlorenchj^ma. Like all the other species of Aristida this is a very poor grazing grass, full of hard sclerenchyma and with little storage food. Arundinaria tessclala (the Berg Bamboo). A mountain bamboo growing in clumps usually along watercourses, and at the edge of Bush on the slopes of the Drakeusberg around to the Stormberg and Witteberg at altitudes of from 4,000- 8,000 feet. It does not enter into the grassland succession, but in places is important in the Bu
. The grasses and grasslands of South Africa. Botany; Grasses. GO ridges. The most noticeable feature is the very small amount of chlorenchj^ma. Like all the other species of Aristida this is a very poor grazing grass, full of hard sclerenchyma and with little storage food. Arundinaria tessclala (the Berg Bamboo). A mountain bamboo growing in clumps usually along watercourses, and at the edge of Bush on the slopes of the Drakeusberg around to the Stormberg and Witteberg at altitudes of from 4,000- 8,000 feet. It does not enter into the grassland succession, but in places is important in the Bush succession. Aruntlinella ecUlonii. A full Vlei species, also marginal to forest. It is widely distributed from the Cape to Natal and the Transvaal. A. rigida from the Kamiesberg, Namaqua- laud is stated by Stapf to be a hairy state of A. ecldonii. Ai'imdo donax. Spanish Eeed; introduced. Fairly com- mon in places along streams, but usually near towns or on Fig. 6.—Ti-anaverse Section of a portion of a leaf of Aristida hipartita (X abovit 8u). Atropis. A temperate genus. The species A. angusta is a rare Cape species, collected by Ecklon "in saline places by the Zwartkops river," and the other species A. horreri is a native of Western Europe, which occurs in sandy places and dunes at the Cape and in Naraaqualand. Dr. Stajjf is inclined to think that it is truly native of South Africa, and if so, it is interesting as representing one of the few boreal elements in our flora. Avcna. Oats. Introduced weeds of Mediterranean origin. Common enough all over, but mostly at the Cape. Euderal. A\pnastrum is another temperate genus, which is repre- sented at the Cape by .4. longum and its variety grande (most abundant), and also by A. quinqiiexeitnn and A. dodii. A. diegenninn is from Little Namaqualand and the others are eastern mountain types. ^4. antarticuni extends from the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been dig
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