A natural history of British grasses . ing amongst the sand, but not found else-where. Of no agricultural use. A native of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, theMediterranean Islands, United States, West Indies, North Africa,and West Asia. Stem smooth, base procumbent and then erect, bearing fouror five flat, rigid, acute, hirsute leaves, with smooth striatedsheaths, the upper one extending considerably beyond its leaf,destitute of a ligule, but furnished with a tuft of digitate, linear, and purplish. Spikelets laterallycompressed, of two glumes and one floret; glumes
A natural history of British grasses . ing amongst the sand, but not found else-where. Of no agricultural use. A native of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, theMediterranean Islands, United States, West Indies, North Africa,and West Asia. Stem smooth, base procumbent and then erect, bearing fouror five flat, rigid, acute, hirsute leaves, with smooth striatedsheaths, the upper one extending considerably beyond its leaf,destitute of a ligule, but furnished with a tuft of digitate, linear, and purplish. Spikelets laterallycompressed, of two glumes and one floret; glumes almost equal, 218 CYNODON DACTYLOX. acute, destitute of lateral ribs; keel dentate on the upper of two paleag, destitute of lateral ribs, dorsal rib three; pistils two; stigmas plumose. Length from threeto six inches. Root perennial and creeping. Flowers in July and August, and ripens its seed at the endof September. The specimen for illustration was gathered at Penzance, byMr. Pi. T. Millett, of 219 DIGITAEIA SANGUINALIS. ScoroLi. Paexell. Hooker and Aknott. Smith. Babington. LlNDLEY. DeAKIN. LXXII. Paniciim sangiiinale. Smith. Linn.^us. Koch. KuNTH. Knapp. Cl^RTIS. ScHREBEE. HtTLL. Hudson. Withering. WiLLDENOW. MaRTTN. Ehehaet. Maceeight. SyniJierisma viilgare, Scheadek. Scheeber. IscJurmon Lobel. Geearde. The Hairy Finger Grass. Digitaiia—From a finger. Sanguinalis—Of blood. DiGiTAEiA. Spike compound. Two British examples. Named from theLatin. A HANDSOME but useless agricultural Grass, supposed tohave been introduced. Occasionally met with in England. Native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, America,North 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 n
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