GYNODON DACTYLON. 



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CYNODON DACTYLON. 



PERSOON. R. BROWN. SMITH. PARNELL. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. 



KOCH. KUNTH. BABINGTON. 

 LINDLEY. SINCLAIR. DEAKIN. MACREIGHT. 



PLATE LXXI. 



Panicum dactylon, 



Digitaria stolonifera, 

 Agrostis linearis, 



SMITH. KNAPP. LINNJEUS. 



WlLLDENOW. DlCKSON. 



HUDSON. WITHERING. HULL. 



SCHRADER. 



RETZIUS. WILLDENOW. 



The Creeping Finger Grass, or Creeping Dog's Tooth Grass. 



Cynodon Dog's tooth. 



Dactylon- 



CYNODON. 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 

 -LA_ Cornwall, growing amongst the sand, but not found elsewhere. 

 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, acute, destitute of lateral ribs; keel dentate on 

 the upper half. Florets of two paleee, destitute of lateral ribs, dorsal 



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