696 GRAMINEE (Stapf). | [ Dactylis. 
the back, grooved in front, somewhat soft; embryo rather small ; 
hilum punctiform, basal. 
Perennial, of varying habit ; blades flat ; ligules scarious ; clusters of spikelets 
ompact in an interrupted or uninterrupted false spike, or at the end of the 
branches or branchlets of a panicle. 
Species about 3 (or 1, very polymorphic) in the temperate regions of the Old 
World; introduced elsewhere. 
1. D. glomerata (Linn. Sp. Plant. i. 71); tufted; rhizome 
short, oblique ; culms shortly ascending, geniculate or erect, rather 
robust, 1 to several feet high, simple, glabrous, smooth or slightly 
leaves mostly crowded at the base, glabrous; sheaths tight, striate, 
3 lin. long; blades linear, tapering to an acute point, 4-1 ft. long or 
longer, 14-4 lin. broad, flat, flaccid, rough on the upper side es 
long ; clusters erowded into a dense (usually lobed) terminal false 
spike with or without 1-4 (rarely more) distant branches below it ; 
these erect or spreading, straight or flexuous, terminated by similar 
clusters or groups of clusters; axis, branches and branchlets scabrid 
or pubescent in the upper part, the latter often minutely hispid or 
ciliate ; spikelets oblong, 21-4 lin. long, light green, often concave 
on the inner side; glumes 1-2 lin. long, glabrous to pubescent ; 
muero or awn up to in. long; keels of pales ciliate; anthers 
14-1} lin. long; grain 1-11 lin. long. Beauv. Agrost. 85, t. 17, 
jig. 5; Fl. Dan. t. 743; Host, Gram. Austr. ii. 67, t.94; Engl Bot 
. : 5 : 
3385; Kunth, Enum. i. 386; Suppl. 320, t. 29, fig. 1; Reichb. 
fe. Fl. Germ. i. t. 59, fig. 1523; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 1. 297 ; 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 904. 
Coast ReG@ion: Cape Div. ; Herschel Lane, Wolley Dod, 1909! 
A native of the temperate regions of the Old World ; introduced elsewhere. 
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LXXIX. SIIBURUS, Stapf. 
(TripHuesia, Stapf.) 
Spikelets laterally compressed, subsessile or shortly pedicelled, in 
spike-like eylindric panicles; rhachilla disarticulating above the 
glumes and between the valves. Florets 4-5, ¢, the ape 
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