100 50. Triticura. 10. GRAMINE.^. PLend.p h. 



|S. fmiticum. Spike awnless. 



!?ea, sive Spelta, Ger. em. G9. 



Zea dicoccus gpica muticii, Park. 1124. 



Spelt corn. 



B. CHLORiDEiE. Rachis spiked ; locustce solitary, rarely 

 many-flowered, iipper-flowret abortive, 2-formed ; slurries 

 keeled, not opposite ; lower spathellule very often awned, 

 rarely awnless, upper 2-keeled ; styles 2. 



X. .51. CYNODON. Richard. Dogstoth. 



Sputhelles alternate, half 2-flowe red, membranaceous, per- 

 sisting, shorter than the flowrets ; glumelle awnless ; upper 

 spathelhile 2-cut, toothed ; rudiment of the abortive flower 

 pedicelled, smooth, clavate ; lodicule obtuse, truncated ; 

 stigmata aspergilliform ; cariopsis not furrowed ; spike digi- 

 tate ; locustcs 4 or 5, filiform, simple, slender, unilateral, in 

 a single row. 



Cynodon sarmentosum. Creeping Dogstooth. 



Runners creeping ; spike digitate, spreading, inner base 

 villose ; locustce single, sessile ; glumes very spreading, 

 rough ; edge of the leaves ciliated. 



Giamen Dactjlon q. Graraen repens cum panicula graminis Mannas, 

 Hail Syn. 399, 1. 



Gramen Canarium ischserai paniculis, Park. 1179, 



Gramen dactyloides radice repente, Ger. em, 28. 



Panicum dactylon, Lin. S. P. 85. 



Digitaiia littoralis, Salisb. Prod. 10. 



Digitaria dactylon, Scop. Cam. 73. 



Paspaliim dactylon, Lam. Ench, Meth. 5,32. 



Digitaria stolonifera, Sckrad. Germ. 1, 165. 



Fibichia utnbellata, Koel. Gram. 309. 



Cynodon dactylon sarmentosum, Per. Syn, 1,85. 



Creeping cocksfoot grass. 



Sandy sea-shore ; perennial ; July, August. 



Root sarmentose, jointed ; runners prostrate, many ; 

 culm ascending, 9 in. long ; leaves short, glaucous, spread- 

 ing, slightly 5-ribbed, edge scariose, back hirsute ; sheaths 

 hirsute; ligula pilose; spike filiform, spreading, purplish. 



