A Manual of the Grasses of New South WalesW.A. Gullick, government printer, 1898 - 199 pagine |
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Agricultural Gazette allusion Bailey Baron von Mueller base Benth Botanical description bracts branches broad cattle ciliate clustered coast districts colonies except Tasmania dense Duthie erect feet high figured.-Agricultural Gazette filiform five-nerved Flowering glumes fodder grass fodder.-A Fruiting glume glabrous glume and palea glumes narrow glumes usually Grain enclosed grass Habitat and range.-Found hairy hyaline inches long inflorescence keeled Latin Leaves flat Leaves narrow ligula lines long lobes male flower membranous Neurachne nutritious obtuse Outer empty glumes Outer glume palea Panicle Panicle loose Panicle narrow Panicum pasture pedicellate peduncle plant pubescent Queensland R.Br raceme rarely rhachis rigid scabrous scarcely scarious Second glume seed sessile sheaths short shortly pedicellate slender soil sometimes South Australia South Wales spike spikelet articulate Spikelets Spikelets one-flowered spikelike Spinifex spreading Stamens Stems Styles distinct tableland terminal thin and hyaline third glumes three-nerved tufted unawned Value Vasey Vernacular name Victoria
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Pagina 117 - The above details prove the innutritious nature of this grass ; but even if it had greater nutritive powers, the extreme coarseness of the foliage would render it unfit for cultivation. Cattle sometimes crop the ends of the young leaves, but in all the instances that have come under my observation it appeared to be from supreme necessity. The only " point to be considered here, therefore, is how to overcome or destroy it on soils where it has got possession. It delights in the most clayey soils,...
Pagina 50 - In the neighbourhood of our camp the grass had been pulled up to a very great extent and piled in hay-ricks, so that the aspect of the desert was softened into the agreeable semblance of a hay-field. The grass had evidently been thus laid up by the natives, but for what purpose we could not imagine.
Pagina 50 - ... ground. . . . We were still at a loss to know for what purpose the heaps of one particular kind of grass had been pulled, and so laid up hereabouts. Whether it was accumulated by the natives to allure birds, or by rats, as their holes were seen beneath, we were puzzled to determine. The grass was beautifully green beneath the heaps, and full of seeds, and our cattle were very fond of this hay.
Pagina 136 - ... absolutely natural product, it may be that the fat, or a portion of it, has been introduced. The substance was then digested in alcohol, which extracts a transparent, hard, golden-yellow resin possessing some odour, and which appears to be an interesting substance. The amount of this resin is 67'3 per cent., and it darkens on keeping. Water digested on the residue dissolves out 6'9 per cent, of colouring matter and salts. It contains no arabin. The remainder, 23-1 per cent., consists of dirt...
Pagina 78 - This grass is best adapted to warm climates, and has proved most valuable on warm, dry soils in the Southern States. Its chief value is for hay, in regions where other grasses fail on account of drought. If cut early the hay is of good quality, and several cuttings may be made in the season ; but if the cutting is delayed until the stalks are well grown, the hay is so coarse and hard that stock do not eat it readily. The seed may be sown at any time when the soil is warm and not too dry. Failures...
Pagina 21 - Paspalum distifhum for seeding pond-holes that dry up, or nearly so, in autumn? Such ponds are usually spots of bare, stinking mud, but when well set to this grass will yield all the way up to 80 tons (in the green state) of autumn feed for stock, especially valuable for cows first ; then follow with sheep until every vestige is devoured. Surely it has an immense food value in such places.
Pagina 135 - Last year Sir William Macleay was kind enough to give me " a sample of gum used by the blacks for cementing the heads of spears,* and prepared from Spinifex roots," which had been collected by Mr. Walter Froggatt in the Napier Range (locally called Barrier Range), 100 miles inland from Derby, North-west Australia. I was dubious as to it being the product of a " Spinifex," never having heard of a grass yielding a resin, but Mr.
Pagina 40 - An annual, 2 to 3 feet high, bearing its roughly-awned flowers in dense, one-sided panicles, composed of numerous crowded spikes ; it grows luxuriantly, particularly in the lowlands of the coast; is greedily eaten by horses and cattle, and makes a hay of good quality. It is justly regarded as an excellent grass, particularly before it ripens its seed, as in the latter stages of its growth the long and stiff awns of its spikes tend to make it somewhat unpalatable.
Pagina 106 - Stems 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves flat, glabrous or softly pubescent, the upper ones rather long with long sheaths. Panicle very dense and spikelike, 4 to 8 inches long ; the spikelets imbricate on the short erect branches, but concealed by the numerous long hair-like awns. Outer glumes very narrow, hyaline with a slightly scabrous keel, nearly equal, about 2i lines long.
Pagina 159 - Spikelets, several, usually many-flowered, pedicellate or sessile, in a loose and spreading, or narrow and clustered, panicle, the rhachis of the spikelet usually glabrous and articulate under the flowering glumes, but often tardily so and sometimes inarticulate.