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forms large rhizomes and coarse foliage but in lawns the 
foliage is fine and the plants are stoloniferous. Although 
called Bermuda-grass it is not a native of Bermuda. 
(Cynodon Rich.) 
Capriola Dactylon (L.) Kuntze (Cynodon Dactylon (L.) Pers.). 
(Fig. 46.) Bermuda-grass. A gray-green perennial; culms exten- 
sively creeping, either below the surface of the soil forming rhi- 
zomes, or above ground forming stolons, the fertile shoots ascend- 
ing, smooth, a few inches to as much as 2 feet in height; sheaths 
smooth, flattened and keeled, vil- 
lous on each side at the throat; 
ligule a very short ciliate-fringed 
membrane; blades flat, 2 to 4 mm. 
wide, 14 to 2 inches long or on 
sterile shoots sometimes much 
longer, more or less scabrous, at 
least on the margin, sharp-pointed; 
inflorescence consisting of 3 to 6 
slender ascending spikes 1 to 2 
inches long, digitate at the summit 
of the culms, pubescent at the base, 
the rachis 14 to 14 mm. wide; spike- 
lets much compressed, often pur- 
plish, ovate, about 214 mm. long; 
glumes narrow, pointed, scabrous 
on the keel, shorter than the spike- 
let, the lemma pubescent on the 
margin and often also on the keel. 
Fig. 46. Capriola Dactylon. Plant show- 
ing stolons, X 24; spikelet, 7. 
