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DIGITAEIA SANGUINALIS. 



ScoroLi. Paexell. Hooker and Aknott. Smith. Babington. 



LlNDLEY. DeAKIN. SiNCLAIK. 

 PLATE LXXII. 



Paniciim sangiiinale. Smith. Linn.^us. Koch. 



" " KuNTH. Knapp. 



" " Cl^RTIS. ScHREBEE. HtTLL. 



" " Hudson. Withering. 



" " WiLLDENOW. MaRTTN. 



" " Ehehaet. Maceeight. 



SyniJierisma viilgare, Scheadek. Scheeber. 



IscJurmon " Lobel. Geearde. 



The Hairy Finger Grass. 



Digitai'ia — From a finger. Sanguinalis — Of blood. 



DiGiTAEiA. 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. 

 Spikclcts dorsally compressed, oblong-lanceolate, of two very 



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