Cynodon.| CXLIV. GRAMINE X. 609 
ea p to be the same as an East Indian one, the two others are, as far as known, 
Flowering fume longer than the outer em Palea folded, 
with a small bristle or point behind i - 1. €. dactylon. 
Flowering glume much shorter than the MES ones, and no 
point behind i 
owering glume pare Palea with 2 prominent 
istant nerv . 2. C. tenellus. 
Flowering og ciliate with long hairs on the keel and 
margins. ea very narrow, the 2 nerves closely 
ntiguous, arang a ciliate ke el 3. C. convergens. 
ume i 
shortly Meine Toni short, of a glaucous green. Spikes 2 to 5, 
above 1 line long, broadly boat-sha ete the keel belly minutely 
ciliate. Palea narrow.  Rhachis of the s pikelet produced into a point - 
or bristle shorter than the glume, and o iu very minute.—R. Br. Prod. 
187 ; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. id Reichb. Ic. F. Germ. t. 26; Panicum 
dactylon, Linn. ; ; Sibth. Fl. Gr. t. 60. 
Queensland, Po rt Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Moreton Bay, F. Mueller and others; 
ee = ine Sei districts, det anesy, see Spine: 
N. rt Jackson, R. Brown and others; New England, C. p 
Richmond Bie. aa Hodgkinson ; jr bini Johnson ; Lad He owe's Island, Fi 
Yarra River and Port Phillip to the Murray, Robertson, F. Mueller and 
others (ery alte SV = inni 2 spikes 
St. dip to the Murray, F. Mueller and others. 
vo s Sound and adjoining districts, F. Mueller, Old- 
feld, P, eiss, n. 1844, p eedit » n, 346. 
Var. pulchellus, lus, F. Muell. Flowering glume ciliate ón the keel with long hairs.— 
Murray River, Dallachy. 
The species is a common and troublesome weed in all hot and some temperate 
écris be although rae generally spread over the settled. sett of extratropical 
a b it may have been introduced with cultivation as suggested in R. aeg 
er 
2. C, tenellus, R. Br. Prod. 187.—Stems creeping and rooting at 
the base as in C. dactylon, but usually much longer. Leaves narrow, 
rather E Mie sender, 4 3 s 6, nm 3 to 4 in. long in Mueller's 
Specimens, in Bro Out glumes about 1 line long, 
narrow, rata iba with a E podani ciliate keel. Flowering glume 
shorter and not broader, obtuse, pubescent, the wc of the S kia 
not produced behind it.—C. altior, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 113. 
N. Australia, Arnhem S. Bay, R. Brown ; Upper B apiid eye E In 
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