A natural history of British grasses . Africa, and the West Indies. Stem branched; base decumbent, then erect, striated andpolished; having four brief, flat, somewhat broad, rough leaveswith hirsute sheaths, the upper one extending considerablybeyond its leaf. Joints three. Inflorescence digitate; brancheslengthy, erect, and linear; from three to nine in dorsally compressed, oblong-lanceolate, of two very 2 M 220 UIGITAKIA SANGUINALIS. unequal glumes and two florets; basal glume diminutive; upperone downy and three-ribbed; basal floret of one palea, flat andoblong-lanceolate,
A natural history of British grasses . Africa, and the West Indies. Stem branched; base decumbent, then erect, striated andpolished; having four brief, flat, somewhat broad, rough leaveswith hirsute sheaths, the upper one extending considerablybeyond its leaf. Joints three. Inflorescence digitate; brancheslengthy, erect, and linear; from three to nine in dorsally compressed, oblong-lanceolate, of two very 2 M 220 UIGITAKIA SANGUINALIS. unequal glumes and two florets; basal glume diminutive; upperone downy and three-ribbed; basal floret of one palea, flat andoblong-lanceolate, with five smooth ribs; margins pubescent;upper floret of two equal-sized palese. Filaments three; anthersshort, violet-coloured, and cloven at either extremity. Stylestwo, slender. Stigmas brief, plumose, and purplish. Lengthfrom six to eighteen inches. Root annual and fibrous. Flowers in August, and ripens its seed at the end ofSeptember. The specimen for illustration was gathered near Bolton, byMr. Joseph Sidebotham, of 21 DIGITAlllA IIUMIFUSA. Peusoon. SMixn. Parnell. Hooker axd Arnott. Babincton. LiNDLEY. DeAKIN. PLATE LXXIII. Syntherisma fflahrum, Schrader. Panicim Kocn. Gatjdix. Macreight. Kunth. humifiisum, Kunth. sanguinale. PoLLicir. Digitaria fdifurmis, Koel. The Glabrous Finger Grass. Digitaria—rrom a finger. Hmnifusa—Spreading ou tlie grouud. A RARE Grass, having no agricultural merits. Found onsandy soil in Yorkshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey, and Sussex. A native also of France, Italy, Switzerland, Prussia, Holland,and Belgium. Stem ascending, polished, striated, having four somewhatbroad, brief, flat leaves, with smooth striated sheaths; upper oneextending considerably beyond its leaf. Joints three. Inflor-escence digitate, lengthy, linear, and from two to oval, dorsally compressed, of two glumes and onefloret; glumes equal, hirsute, and five-ribbed; inner one deeppurple, the others only purplish. Floret of same length asg
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