. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 65. GRASS FAMILY. 229 1. Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. Wire-grass. Crab-grass. Yard-grass. Fig. 552. Cynosurus indicus L. Sp. PI. 72. 1753. Eleusine indica Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem. 1: 8. 1788. Culms 6'-2° tall, tufted, erect, or decumbent at the base, smooth' and glabrous. Sheaths loose, overlap- ping and often short and crowded at the base of the culm, g
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 65. GRASS FAMILY. 229 1. Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. Wire-grass. Crab-grass. Yard-grass. Fig. 552. Cynosurus indicus L. Sp. PI. 72. 1753. Eleusine indica Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem. 1: 8. 1788. Culms 6'-2° tall, tufted, erect, or decumbent at the base, smooth' and glabrous. Sheaths loose, overlap- ping and often short and crowded at the base of the culm, glabrous or sometimes sparingly villous; ligule very short; blades 3'-i2' long, i"-3" wide, smooth or scabrous; spikes 2-10, i'-3' long, whorled or approxi- mate at the summit of the culm or one or two some- times distant; spikelets 3-6-flowered, li"-2" long; scales acute, minutely scabrous on the keel, the first i-nerved, the second 3-7-nerved, the others 3-5-nerved. In fields, dooryards and waste places all over North America except the extreme north. Naturalized from the warmer regions of the Old World. Dog's-tail or Goose- grass. Crop-grass. June-Sept. 66. DACTYLOCTENIUM Willd. Enum. 1029. 1809. Annual grasses with flat leaf-blades and spicate inflorescence, the spikes in pairs or digitate. Spikelets several-flowered, sessile, closely imbricated in two rows on one side of the rachis which is extended beyond them into a sharp point. Scales compressed, keeled, the '2 lower and the uppermost ones empty, the others subtending flowers. Stamens 3. Styles distinct, short. Stigmas plumose. Grain free, rugose, loosely enclosed in the scale. [Greek, referring to the digitately spreading spikes.] A genus of a few species, natives of the warmer parts of the Old World. Type species: Cyno- surus aegyptius L. i. Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd. Crowfoot or Yard-grass. Egyptian Grass. Fig- 553-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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