FIGITARIA SANGUINALI8. 219 



DIGITARIA SANGUINALIS. 



SCOPOLI. PARNELL. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. SMITH. BABINGTON. 

 LINDLEY. DEAKIN. SINCLAIR. 



PLATE LXXII. 



Panicum sanguinale, SMITH. LINNAEUS. KOCH. 



KUNTH. KNAPP. 



CURTIS. SCHREBER. HULL. 



HUDSON. WITHERING. 



WILLDENOW. MARTYN. 



EHRHART. MACREIGHT. 



Syntherisma vulgare, SCHRADER. SCHREBER. 



Ischamon vulgare, LOBEL. GERARDE. 



The Hairy Finger Grass. 

 Digiiaria From a finger. Sanguinalis Of blood. 



DIGITARIA. Spike compound. Two British examples. Named from the 

 Latin. 



A HANDSOME but useless agricultural Grass, supposed to have 

 -L\_ 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 unequal glumes and two florets; basal glume 

 diminutive; upper one downy and three-ribbed; basal floret of one 

 palea, flat and oblong-lanceolate, with five smooth ribs; margins 



