690 GRAMINER (Stapf). [ Cynosurus. 
broader to ovate, closer to imbricate, all or at least the lower passing 
into bristle-like awns. 
1 or inna seantily fascicled to cwspitose ; a es — ise or less 
faced; ‘Hpate hyaline ; gore pipioey Me ery dense, rarely 80 what loose, spike- 
like capitate, peat nd fertile spi Wwaleta die: een ae ‘tha former 
asd outside and more or Tad waneesilie the latter 
Species 2 or 3, in the Mediterranean countries, 1 all over Europe. 
1. C. echinatus (Linn. Sp. Plant. 72); annual ; culms ie az" or 
solitary, erect or tee a and ascending, from a few inches to 2 ft 
long, glabrous, 2—-6- noded, internodes more or less exserted ; pense 
seaberulous to scabrid in the upper part ; panicle very dense, spike- 
like, secund, obliquely globose to oblong, 1-22 in. long ; axis sulcate, 
smooth ; branches and branchlets very short, much contracted, 
granular or scaberulous, branchlets often bracteate ; spikelets fas- 
cicled, heteromorphous, the iia fertile, the lateral barren, more 
or less concealing the former; fertile spikelets more or less cuneate, 
—6 lin. long, Soar cea 2 " rhachilla readily Saat atllasire, pro- 
duced as a short bristle or ending with a rudimentary floret ; ‘elumes 
equal, subulate-lanceolate, long and finely acuminate, 4—6 lin. long, 
yaline, white, 1-nerved, scaberulous on the nerve and margins ; 
valves lanceolate- oblong in profile, minutely 2-toothed or entire, 
sed, grooved; barren spikelets broad- ‘obovate, 31-5 1 ons 
rhachilla tough, granular-scabrid ; ; glumes and valves not cecal 
like the supporting bracts subulate-lanceolate, long attenuate into 
scabrid often purplish nage more or less spreading, rigidly mem- 
branous, light green or rplish, decreasing and closer towards the 
‘ st, Gram. 
ii. 95 Engl. Bot. t. 1333; Kunth, Enum. i. 388; Steud. Syn. Pl. 
Glum, i. 299 ; Durand neh er. Fl. Afr. v.905. ©. coloratus, 
ac ex Sisud. Nomenel. ed. ii. i. 465; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 439 ; 
Boiss. Fl. Or. v ae 1; Durand . "Schinz, Le. Chrysurus echinatus, 
Beauv. Agrost. 12 
Coast Reaion:  Swellendam District,” Mund. 
Mediterranean countries, elsewhere introduced. 
LXXVI. FINGERHUTHIA, Nees ex Lehm. 
Spikelets strongly laterally compressed, in compact a 
panicles, jointed on and deciduous from the pedicels ; rhachil 
pelea 
= ren 
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