CYNODON DACTYLON. 
Prrsoon. R. Brown. Smitu. Parnett. Hooxrer anp Arnott. 
Kocnu. Kunty. Basrneron. 
Linpiry. Srnctarr. Deakin. Macrercnur. 
PLATE LXXI. 
Panicum dactylon, Smit. Kwapr. Linyzvs. 
af st Wititpenow. Dickson. 
Hupson. Wituerine. Hott. 
Digitaria stolonifera, ScHRADER. 
Agrostis linearis, Rerzius. WuILLpDENOW. 
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The Creeping Finger Grass, or Creeping Dog’s Tooth Grass. 
Cynodon—Dog’s Tooth. Dactylon— ? 
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Crnopon. Spike compound. Only one British example, the Cynodon 
dactylon; named from the Greek. 
A pretty and singular Grass, common on the south-west coast 
of Cornwall, growing amongst the sand, but not found else- 
where. Of no agricultural use. 
A native of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, the 
Mediterranean Islands, United States, West Indies, North Africa, 
and West Asia. 
Stem smooth, base procumbent and then erect, bearing four 
or five flat, rigid, acute, hirsute leaves, with smooth striated 
sheaths, the upper one extending considerably beyond its leaf, 
destitute of a ligule, but furnished with a tuft of hairs. 
Inflorescence digitate, linear, and purplish. Spikelets laterally 
compressed, of two glumes and one floret; glumes almost equal, 
