PLend.p/i. 10. GRAMINE.E. 99. Mibora. 1.55 



LVIII. 99. MIBORA. Adanson. Dtvarf-hent. 



Spalhelles alternate, truncated, fringed, longer than the 

 spathellules, lower smallest ; loiver spathellule torn ; jaggs 

 bristled; upper not nicked; ovary beaked; beak naked; 

 stigmata villous ; cariopsis free, not furrowed. — Spike simple, 

 few-flowered ; rachis flexuose ; locitstce nearly sessile. 



Mibora vema. Spring dwarf-bent. 



Spike filiform ; lociistce elliptical, large and truncated 

 at top. 



Grarnen uiinimum Anglo-Britannicum Lobclii, liaii Syn. K k 7. 



Mibora venia, Adanson. 



Knappia agrosiidea. Smith Fl. Br. 138T. 



Agrostis'minima, Lin. S. P. 93. 



Sturmia iiiinitna, Slurin. FL Germ. 7, 1. 



Chaniagrostis minima, De Cand. St/n. Fl. Gall. 1650. 



Nardus, Guelt. 



Stunnia verna, Persoon Ench. 1,72. 



Sandy shores ; annual ; April and May. 



Root fibrous; culm upright, 2 in. high, scaly and leafy 

 at bottom, naked smooth and knotless above far up ; leaves 

 hairlike, blunt, glandular, spotted; sheaths very short; 

 ligula long, blunt ; spike violet, 6 or 8-flowered. 



b. Locustce 2 or many-Jioivered ; one barren. 



LIX. 100. DIGIT ARIA. Haller. Fingers. 



Spathelles alternate ; lower very small, often scarcely 

 visible ; lower flowret neuter ; spathellule one, herba- 

 ceous, awnless ; UPPER hermaphrodite; spathellules rather 

 leathery, hardening, awnless; style 2-parted; stigmata 

 aspergilliform ; cariopsis free, very slightly furrowed. — 

 Spilielets simple, linear, digitate or in bundles, with a flat- 

 tened membranaceous back ; locustce 1 -sided ; pedicells 2 or 

 many-flowered. 



1. Digitaria sanguinalis. Bloody fingers. 



Spikelets digitate, 3, 4, or 6 ; inside smooth at bottom ; 

 between upright and spreading; locust cs elliptical; spathelles 

 very unequal ; leaves and sheaths slightly papillose. 



Grarnen dactylon latiore folio, Raii St/n. 399, 2. 

 Ischaemon sylveslre latiore folio, Park, 1178. 

 Ischaemon vulgarc, Ger. em; 27. 

 Panicum sangiiinale, Lin. S. P. 84. 

 Digifaria sanguinalis, Scop. Corn. 72. 

 Syntherisma vulgare, Schrad. Germ. 1, 161. 

 Paspalum sanguinalc, Poiret Enc. Metli. 5,33. 

 Cocks foot grass. 



