Dactylis. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 341 
a number of heaped, linear, acuminate, smooth spikelets, of 
from twenty to fifty flowers each; as they advance from the 
apex the lower florets drop, teat the zigzag rachis naked 
as they ripen, Calyx, both valves smooth and obtuse. Seed 
pval; smooth, brown, 
DACTYLIS. Schreb. gens N. 117. 
"Clon two-valved, compressed, one valvelet larger, keeled, 
Seed fews, 
1. D. lagopoides. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 410. Burm. 
Ind. 28, t. 12..f, 2. 
Creeping. Leaves rigid, with spinescent points, Heads 
globular. Calyces from six to eight-flowered, gel as are 
also the corols ; anthers blue. 
It is Stasi found growing on a salt sandy. soil near the 
sea. 
Culms creeping to a great extent, with oni, four to ce 
inches of the flower-bearing portions, erect, they are of a 
firm, ligneous texture, round and smooth, every part of the 
erect portions covered by the sheaths of the leaves, Leaves 
numerous, small, approximate, firm, acute, resembling thorns, 
Head, or spike terminal, short-pedicelled, globular, compos- 
ed of many, closely crowded, sessile, roundish spikelets, 
Calyx from six to eight-flowered ; glumes equal, shorter than 
the flowers, obtuse a hairy. Corol two-valved, exterior © 
striated, hairy, and obtuse ; tzner membranaceous, involving’ 
the stamens and —— Stamens anes, Anthes, blue.. 
It is a teal a a ty poll 2 ground at. ata pa distance ibe 
the sea. I 
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