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About three pounds of seed should be sown with other grasses for an acre of land. ALOPECURUS pratensis. MEADOW FOX-TAIL-GRASS. One of our most productive plants of this tribe: it grows best in a moist soil, is very early, being often fit for the scythe by the middle of May. About two bushels of seed will sow an acre, with a proportionate quantity of Clover; which see. ALOPECURUS geniculatus.
ELYMUS geniculatus. LIME GRASS. The foliage of these grasses make excellent mats and baskets; and where they grow in quantity afford a livelihood to many industrious persons who manufacture these articles. SALSOLA Kali. GLASS-WORT, or KELP. Soda and Barilla are yielded by this plant. The ashes of this vegetable yield an alkaline salt, which is of considerable use for making glass, soap, &c.
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