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Fig. 210. Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd. (Cynosurus 

 cegyptius L. ; Dactyloctenium cvgyptiacum Willd.). Crowfoot- 

 grass. — A low, tufted or creeping grass, with ascending dower- 

 ing stems rarely 3 dm. high, and three to five digitate spikes 2 to 

 5 cm. long. — Waste or cultivated ground, southern New York to 

 Illinois, south to Florida and Texas, west to California. [Widely 

 distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of both hemis- 

 pheres.] May-December. 



