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Fig. 210. Dactyloctenium aegyptium CL.) Willd. (Cynosurus 

 wgyptius L. ; Dactyloctenium wgyptiacum Willd.). Crowfoot- 

 GRASS. — A low, tufted or creeping grass, with ascending flower- 

 ing stems rarely 3 dm. high, and three to five digitate spikes 2 to 

 5 cm. long. — Waste or cultivated ground, southern New York to 

 Illinois, south to Florida and Texas, west to California. [Widely 

 distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of both hemis- 

 pheres.] May-December. 



