. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 1Y8 BULLETIN 112, U. S. DEPAETMBNT OF AGRICULTURE. Perennial, usually low grasses, with creeping stolons or rhizomes, short blades, and several slender spikes digitate at the summit of the upright flowering stems. Species six, of which three are Aus- tralian, one species widely dis- tributed in the warmer regions of the globe. Type species: Pmvicum dacty- lon L. Capriola Adans., Fani. PI. 2: 31, 532. 1763. The genera are indi- cated and distinguished by Adanson iii a much abbreviated and often un- satisfactory manner.
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 1Y8 BULLETIN 112, U. S. DEPAETMBNT OF AGRICULTURE. Perennial, usually low grasses, with creeping stolons or rhizomes, short blades, and several slender spikes digitate at the summit of the upright flowering stems. Species six, of which three are Aus- tralian, one species widely dis- tributed in the warmer regions of the globe. Type species: Pmvicum dacty- lon L. Capriola Adans., Fani. PI. 2: 31, 532. 1763. The genera are indi- cated and distinguished by Adanson iii a much abbreviated and often un- satisfactory manner. Tlie tabular arrangement of tlie genera of Phal- arides, his first section of tlie grass family or Gramina, includes Oap-. FiG. -Bermuda grass, Cuijrlola dactylon. Plant, X floret, X 5. spikelet and two views of riola, with the following diagnosis, interpreting the table: Summit of leaf sheath hairy ; flowers in digitate spikes; glumes laterally compressed; lemma awnless. In the index there is given as a synonym under Capriola, " Gramen dactylon ; The last phrase appears in the first edition of the Species Plantarum * in the synonymy under Panicum dactylon as " Gramen dactylon, radice repente. s. officinarum. Scheuch. gram. 104," thus connecting Capriola Adans. with Panicum dactylon. Cynodon Rich.; Pers., Syn. I'l. 1: 85. 1805. Only one species described, C. dac- tylon, based on Panicum dactylon L. The only species in North America is Capriola dactylon (L.) Kuntze (fig. 105), commonly know^n as Bermuda grass. This is a iL., Sp. PI. 58. 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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