. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. noses,with guinea grass, which isbeing carried to the nearestmarkets for sale. Sometimesox carts are used to convey theguinea grass to the is also obtained from thegrass, although it is seldomused for the purpose. Anotherimportant species of Panicum isP. miliaceum, the broom-cornmillet (Fig. 63). Foxtail Millet {Chaetochloaitalicd).—This grass includes anumber of different types suchas the Hungarian (Fig. 64),Aino, German and Siberianmillets. The following two gra
. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. noses,with guinea grass, which isbeing carried to the nearestmarkets for sale. Sometimesox carts are used to convey theguinea grass to the is also obtained from thegrass, although it is seldomused for the purpose. Anotherimportant species of Panicum isP. miliaceum, the broom-cornmillet (Fig. 63). Foxtail Millet {Chaetochloaitalicd).—This grass includes anumber of different types suchas the Hungarian (Fig. 64),Aino, German and Siberianmillets. The following two grassesare natives of the westernplains states. They were usedextensively by the wild herdsof buffalos and eaten by thec?ittle upon a thousand will figure largely in anyattempt at restocking the cattleranges with forage plants. Grama Grass {Bouteloiia gracilis = B. oligostachya).-—This grass alsocalled blue grama is found on the plains and prairies from Manitoba andWisconsin to Mississippi, Arizona and Mexico. It is probably the mostimportant of the grama grasses, which include six weeks grama { Pig. 64.—A single plant of Hungarian millet{Chaetochloa italica). {After Vinall, H. N.:Foxtail Millet, Farmers Btdletin 793, 1917, p. 12.) 148 PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL BOTANY aristoides) side-oat grama {B. curtipendula) black grama {B. eriopoda)rough grama {B. hirsuta) hairy grama {B. Parryi) and other species of thegenus. It forms very dense sod and withstands the trampling of cattleto a marked degree. It seems to grow more successfully when grazedand trampled to some extent, and under favorable conditions of soil itmay grow sufficiently thick to be used as a hay grass. It is everywhereon the mesas and prairies forming a dense mass of herbage of fine andcurly leaves arising from near the roots of the plant. The flowers bearingstems are 6 to i8 inches tall and bear near their summits two to three one-sided spikes in form like a tooth brush. This grass is easily propa
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