. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 166 BULLETIIT 772, U. S. DEPAPxTMENT OF AGEICULTITRE. Perennial low grasses with creeping rhizomes, short, pimgently pointed blades, and terminal spikelike racemes, the spikelets on short appressed jDedicels. Species about five, southeastern Asia to New Zealand. Type ppecies: Agrostis matrella L. Osterdamia Neck., Elem. Bot. 3: 218. 1790. In a note appended to the para- graph on Agrostis, Necker states, "Agrostis matrella Lin. species distincta, agrostidis prosima, qiiam osterdamiam appellamus, char- actere sequen
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 166 BULLETIIT 772, U. S. DEPAPxTMENT OF AGEICULTITRE. Perennial low grasses with creeping rhizomes, short, pimgently pointed blades, and terminal spikelike racemes, the spikelets on short appressed jDedicels. Species about five, southeastern Asia to New Zealand. Type ppecies: Agrostis matrella L. Osterdamia Neck., Elem. Bot. 3: 218. 1790. In a note appended to the para- graph on Agrostis, Necker states, "Agrostis matrella Lin. species distincta, agrostidis prosima, qiiam osterdamiam appellamus, char- actere sequent!." Although Osterdamia, Agrostis, Milium, and many other groups are called by Necker species of his genus Achyrophyton. these so-called species are the equivalent of the genera of his contemporaries and are usually so recog- nized by botanical \\'riters. Zoysia Willd., Ges. Naturf. Freund. Berlin, Neue Schrift. 3: 440. 1801. Type and only species, Z. pimgens Willd. Matrella Pers., Syn. PI. 1: 73. 1805. Type species, Agrostis juncea Lam., the only species described. Several years ago a species of this genus was introduced into the United States as a lawn grass under the names Korean lawn grass and Jap- anese lawn grass. It was recommended for the South- ern States and was said to be hardy as far north as Connecti- cut.^ The species then intro-. FiG. 96.—Tsfasia aliena. Plant, X I ; group of spikelets (spike) and single spikelet, X 5. ducecl appears to be Osterdamia jafonica (Steud.) Hitchc. {Zoysia japonica Steud.). Eecently a fine-leaved species, Osterdamia tenui- folia (Willd.) Kuntze, has been introduced into Florida and has given favorable results. The original species, 0. mxitreTla (L.) Kuntze (fig. 97), manila grass, is common in the Philippine Islands. iScribner, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Agrost. Bull. 3: 95. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance o
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