GRASS FAMILY. 377 
as sander ytd wl 20 ~30 feet. ulm 2-3 feet high. Leaves long, near half an 
inch wide, attenuated to a long slender point, smooth and glaucous. Pocsnae ied 12 inches 
long, wish very pion and spike-like. 5S; iRelets ei wan Haare in length. 
me t, Maine to New Jersey, and on the shores of Lakes Supe! jor and a 
ugust. 
Obs. Although this grass has, properly speaking, no agricultural use, 
yet it is in some localities a very important and u seful 0 one. Along the 
oast of i b} sands. The 
or the protection of harbors, and m 
and inva gee rt. ome interesting aeatiee showing the important 
purpose a mere grass can serve, may be found in Flint’s Treatise on 
Grasses id | ivone Plants. . 
9. CY’NODON, Rich. Bermupa Grass. 
[Greek, literally Dog’s tooth ; but the reason is not obyious.] 
Sprkes digitate, in pairs, o Spikelets with one perfect floret, 
and sometimes ‘with the Ai aoe pedicel or meets rudiment of a 
second superior floret. Glumes keeled, awnless, agp A. equal, bee pia 
one exterior. Palee ka intless and awnless larg: 
shaped. Stamens 3. w, diffusely branched, creeping pica + reith 
ane flattish leaves. 
C. Dac’tylon, Pers. Spikes 3—5, digitate, spreading ; palee longer 
thn a Ap as platens with a beardless bristle at the base of the the 
Pinec Cokenin Bermuda Grass. Dog’s-tooth Grass. 
Zoot perennial, pes ereeping ps aha slender et a Culm procumbent, 
radicating, 6-12 or 15 inches long, terete, smooth. — 2 or 4 inches long, acute, 
ewhat ter ies rigid, ‘slightly heine and sca sheaths longer than 
Tnodes, Peni ligule beard-lik sane 3-5 Casually. 4) 4)° 1-2 inches long ; rachis 
psorine and angular, not winged. pee vate, half as long as the ovary. Stigmas dark 
purp 
‘Loose sandy soils : Southern States : introduced? Ff. All summer (El). Fr. 
Obs. This I should —. ae a ee 
ocal character in agriculture, compared with our better species. Mr. 
Etxiorr gives the following pian ~# ‘it (ander the name of Digitaria 
bserved in South Caro! have two v: 
te) “We 
ant, one or) growing in damp 
native; the other, descri above, said to be — a tender, deli- 
cate grass, growing over and binding the most arid and Seive Jands in 
our country, and apparently preferred by stock of all descriptions to 
'y Other grass. The cultivation of this grass on the poor and exten- 
