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THE TRUE GRASSES. 



253. (222) Cynosurus L. Panicles spike-like or capi- 

 tate, one-sided ; the fertile spikelets not enclosed by the 

 pectinate sterile ones ; flowering glumes awned from or 

 below the point, or simply mucronate ; glumes of the 

 sterile spikelets 2-ranked, spreading. 



Species five, in the temperate zone of the Old World ; 

 one (G. cristatus) has also been introduced into America. 



Sec. I. Eucynosurus. Flowering glumes and sterile 

 glumes mucronate-pointed, not awned. C. cristatus L. 



Fig. 84. — Dactylis glomerata L. 

 (After Nees, Gen. Germ., I. 65.) 

 (Panicle represented too loose.) 



Fig. 85. — Cynosurus echinatus 

 L. (After Mart, and Eichler, 

 Fl. Bras, II, III, pi. 37.) B.f., 

 Fertile, B.s., sterile spikelets. 



with linear false spikes, in all Europe on meadows. A 

 good, tender fodder-grass, also good for the foundation 

 of grass-plots or lawns. 



Sec. II. Phalona (Falona) Adans. (as a genus). Glumes 

 awned. C. echinatus L. (Fig. 85) in South Europe, a 

 field weed. 



