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XRIANDRIA DIGYNIA 



Gramen dactylon procumbens. SL 1. 



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111. 



Hughes. 239. 



Dutch Grass, 



Indian Dog's-tail Grass. 



Miller. 



DONA^ 



Cramina. Xm.— Gramlnesc (Arundo). Juss. Brown. 



arundina" D. calycibus sub-3--5-floris flosculis 



calyccm sequantibus, culmo basi lignoso. 



ceus. 



Roeni. Syst, 2. p. 600. 



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Arundo Doiiax. Willd. Sp. PL 1 . p. 454. 



Hart. Kcw. 1 . p. 173. 



Arundo Sativa. Donax Dioscoridis. 



Bauh. Fin. 17. 

 Cultivated Rcod. Miller. 



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Browne instead p. 137. But in the '' Gramen Dactj^lon Procnm- 

 bens"— the Dutch Grass of Jamaica known lo Sloanc — the 

 " spikes arc usually three or four, very ^rcon, broad and larg-c, 

 all coming from the top of the stalks." The Panicum molle 

 cannot be confounded with this gramen. It is most probable 

 that Sloane and Browne applied the vernacular name, Dutch 

 Grass, to thc^samc plants and Sloane's description applies very 

 perfectly to the Dutch Grass of Barbados, Browne's description 

 is unusually imperfect ; as far however as it goes, it corresponds 

 very well with Cynosurus indicus; and, for the reasons stated, I 

 have no doubt his " Gramen Majns Culmo Compresso" and Cy- 

 nosurus Indicus are identical. 



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