TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Cynodon. 95 



Stigm. feathery. Seed ovate, coated with the hardened 

 corolhi. 



Schrader and Brown have observed occasionally the rudi- 

 ment of a second flower, like a small bristle. 



The stems are prostrate and creeping, leafy, with nprioht 

 flowering- branches. Fl. spiked, unilateral, somewhat al- 

 ternate, on the flat side of a linear triangular receptacle^ 

 several of which are collected at the top of tlie branch. 

 The recept. is really neither jointed nor scrobiculated, so 

 that this genus cannot be referred to the spiked grasses, 

 which constitute our third section. 



1. Q>» Dactylon, Creeping Dog's-tooth grass. 

 Spikes four or five, crowded together. Corolla smooth. 



C. Dactylon. Br. Pr. 187. 



Panicum Dactylon. Lhiii. Sp. PL 85. Willd. v. I. 342. Fl. Br. Q7. 



Engl. Bot. V. 12. t. 850. FL Grccc. v.I.Ad.L GO. Knapp t. 13. 



Dicks. Dr. PL 53. H. Sicc.fasc. 1 1. 1. 

 Digitaria stolonifera. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 165. 



D. n. 1527. Hall Hist. v. 2. 244. 



Agrostis linearis. Retz. Obs.fasc. 4. 19. Willd. v. 1. 375. Ascer^ 



tabled by Mr. Lambert. 

 Gramen repens, cum panicula graminis mannse. Raii Stpi. 399. 

 G. Dactylon, folio arundinaceo, majus et minus. Bauh. Theatr. 



111 — 113,/,/. Moris, r.3. 184. w. 3, 4. sect.S. t.3.f.4. 

 G. Dactvlon, radice repente, sive officinarum. Town. Inst. 520. 



Scheu'chz. Agr. 104. ^. 2./. 1 1, I. 

 G. dactiloides, radice repente. Ger. Em. 28./. 

 G. Canarium alterum. Lob. Ic. v. 1. 23./. 



On the sandy shores of Cornwall abundantly, first noticed by 

 Mr. Newton in the time of Ray. 



Perennial. Juhj, August. 



"^riie roots are tough and creeping, almost woody, wit^ smooth 

 fibres. Stems also creeping to a great extent, matted, round, 

 jointed, leafy, very smooth. Leaves tapering, sharp-pointed, 

 ribbed, hairy, a little glaucous ; with long, striated, smooth 

 sheaths, and a hairy slipula. Flowering -branches a span high, 

 leafy, simple, terminating in 4 or 5 nearly equal, crowded, erect, 

 many-flowered, linear spikes ; the common stalk of each trian- 

 gular, roughish ; flat and slightly bordered on one side, along 

 which the nearly sessile, shining, pmpWahJloiccrs are ranged in 

 2 close alternate rows. The cor. is longer than the calijx, very 

 much compressed, opposite, not, as I once thought, alternate, 

 with respect to the latter. 



