. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. GRAMINEAE (GBASS FAMILY) 147 long; spikelets 5-7 mm. long; first glume warty-tuberculate on the nerves; florets stifly ciliate on the margins. (C americanum Spreng.)âWet pine barrens, Va., and southw. â Taste very pungent. Fig. 140. 56. DACTYLOCT^NIUM Willd. Crowfoot Grass Spikelets several-flowered, the uppermost imperfect, sessile and crovrded in 3 rows along one side of a continuous rhachis, which extends beyond the spike- lets in a naked poi
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. GRAMINEAE (GBASS FAMILY) 147 long; spikelets 5-7 mm. long; first glume warty-tuberculate on the nerves; florets stifly ciliate on the margins. (C americanum Spreng.)âWet pine barrens, Va., and southw. â Taste very pungent. Fig. 140. 56. DACTYLOCT^NIUM Willd. Crowfoot Grass Spikelets several-flowered, the uppermost imperfect, sessile and crovrded in 3 rows along one side of a continuous rhachis, which extends beyond the spike- lets in a naked point; glumes broad, keeled; lemmas boat- shaped, cuspidate; palea equaling the lemma, acute, deeply folded between the oiliate-winged keels ; grain reddish brown, the loose pericarp transversely wrinkled. ââ Annual, with more or less decumbent and creeping base, and 2-6 stout unilateral spikes digitate at the apex of the culm. (Name from Sd/cruXos, finger., and ktcvIov, a little comb, alluding to the digitate and pectinate spikes, j 1. D. AEGYPTiuM (L.) Riohter. Usually glabrous; culms rooting at the lower nodes; spikes cm. long; glumes scabrous on the keel, the second cuspidate; the awned tip of lower lemma inflexed, that of the others straiglit or curved. (i>. aegyptiacum Willd. ; Eleusine aegyptia Pers.) â Yards and cultivated fields, N. Y., 111., and southw. (Nat. from tropics of the Old World.) Fig. 141. D. aegyptium. Inflorescence x y^- Splkelet X 2. Fruit X 8. Seed x 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888; Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln, 1864-1935; Fernald, Merritt Lyndon, 1873-1950. New York, American Book Co
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