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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 vnlgare, SCHRADER. SCHREBER. 



IscJicemon " LOBEL. GERARDE. 



The Hairy Finger Grass. 



Digitaria 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 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 



2 M 



