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DIGITARIA SANGUINALIS. 
Scopott. Parnett. Hooker anp Arnott. SmitH. BaBIineron. 
Linpury. Deakin. SINcrAIR. 
PLATE LXXII. 
Panicum sanguinale, SmitH. Linnzxus. Kocn. 
oe ee Konto. Kwapp. 
“ S- Curtis. ScHreEBER. Hott. 
“6 & Hupson. WItTHERING. 
= o WILLDENow. Martyn. 
“ “ Exuruart. Macreicut. 
Syntherisma vulgare, ScHRADER. SCHREBER. 
Ischamon cu LopEt. GERARDE. 
The Hairy Finger Grass. 
Digitaria—From a finger. Sanguinalis—OF blood. 
Diettarta. Spike compound. Two British examples. Named from the 
Latin. 
A HANDSOME but useless agricultural Grass, supposed to 
have been introduced. Occasionally met with in England. 
Native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, America, 
North Africa, and the West Indies. 
Stem branched; base decumbent, then erect, striated and 
polished; having four brief, flat, somewhat broad, rough leaves 
with hirsute sheaths, the upper one extending considerably 
beyond its leaf. Joints three. Inflorescence digitate; branches 
lengthy, erect, and linear; from three to nine in number. 
Spikelets dorsally compressed, oblong-lanceolate, of two very 
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