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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 (C. cristatus) has also been introduced into America. 



Sec. I. Eucynosurus. Flowering glumes and sterile 

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



FIG. 84.Dacti/lis -qlnmerata L. 

 (After Nees, Gen. Germ., 1. 65.) 

 (Panicle represented too loose.) 



Fio. 85. Cynosurus echinntus 

 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. 



