. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. I.—C'rab-graHH, Syntherisma 8angu4m,aUa. X J ; two views of Hplkdct und I'lrtlli' X 10. than indurate fruit and in the flat, white, hyaline margins of the lemma. Our commonest species is Syntherisma sanguinalis (L.) Dulac {Dig it aria sanguinalis Scop.) (fig. 130), usually called crab- grass. This is a decumbent or prostrate annual, usually more or less purple, with hispid sheaths, flat blades, few to several slender digi- tate or subdigitate spikes or racemes, and a narrowly winged rachis, the first glume minute. Crab
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. I.—C'rab-graHH, Syntherisma 8angu4m,aUa. X J ; two views of Hplkdct und I'lrtlli' X 10. than indurate fruit and in the flat, white, hyaline margins of the lemma. Our commonest species is Syntherisma sanguinalis (L.) Dulac {Dig it aria sanguinalis Scop.) (fig. 130), usually called crab- grass. This is a decumbent or prostrate annual, usually more or less purple, with hispid sheaths, flat blades, few to several slender digi- tate or subdigitate spikes or racemes, and a narrowly winged rachis, the first glume minute. Crab-grass is a native of the Old World, but is now widely distributed in tropical America, and is common in cultivated soil throughout the eastern and southern part of the United States. It is often a bad weed in lawns. In the Southern States, where crab-grass produces an abundant growth in the late summer on the fields from which crops have been gathered, it is utilized for forage and is sometimes cut for Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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