TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Cynodon. 95 



Stigm. feathery. Seed ovate, coated with the hai'dened 

 corolla. 



Schrader and Brown have observed occasionally the rudi- 

 ment of a second flower, like a small bristle. 



The stems are prostrate and creeping, leafy, with iipri<>-ht 

 flowering- branches. Fl. spiked, imilateral, som.ewhat"al- 

 ternate, on the flat side of a linear triangular receptacle, 

 several of which are collected at the top of die branch. 

 The recept. is really neither jointed nor scrobiculated, so 

 that this genus cannot be referred to the spiked grasses, 

 which constitute our third section. 



1. C. Dactylon. Creeping Dog's-tooth-grass. 

 Spikes four or five, crowded together. Corolla smooth. 



C. Dactylon. Br. Pr. 187. 



Panicum Dactylon. Linn. Sp. PL 85. IVilld. v. \. 342. Fl.Br.67. 



Engl. Bot. V. 12. t. 8.50. Fl. Grtec. v. ]. 45. t. 60. Knapp t. is' 



Dicks. Dr. PI. 53. H.Sicc.fasc. 11. 1. 

 Digitaria stolonifera. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 165. 



D. n. 1527. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 244. 



Agrostis linearis. Retz. Obs.fasc. 4. 19. Willd. v.\. 3/5. Ascer- 

 tained by Mr. Lambert. 



Gramen repens, cum panicula graminis mannse. Raii Syn. 399. 



G. Dactylon, folio arundinaceo, majus et minus. Bauh. Theatr. 

 111—113,/,/. Moris.v.3. \M. n.3,4- sect.8. t.3.f.4. 



G, Dactylon, radice repente, sive officinarum. Tourn. Inst. 520. 

 Scheuchz. Agr. 104. t.2.f.\\, I. 



G. dactiloides, radice repente. Ger. Em. 28. f. 



G. Canarium alteram. Lob. Ic. v. 1, 23./. 



On the sandy shores of Cornwall abundantly, first noticed by 

 Mr. Newton in the time of Ray. 



Perennial. July, August. 



The roots are tough and creeping, almost woody, with smooth 

 fibres. Stems also creeping to a great extent, matted, round, 

 jointed, leafy, very smooth. Leaves tapering, sharp-pointed, 

 ribbed, hairy, a little glaucous ; with long, striated, smooth 

 sheaths, and a hairy stipula. Flowering-branches a span high, 

 leafy, simple, terminating in 4 or 5 nearly equal, crowded, erect, 

 many-flowered, linear spikes ; the common stalk of each trian- 

 gular, roughish ; flat and slightly bordered on one side, along 

 which the nearly sessile, shining, •pwrpYi'&h flowers are ranged in 

 2 close alternate rows. The cor. is longer than the calijx, very 

 much compressed, opposite, not, as I once thought, alternate', 

 with respect to the latter. 



