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DIGITAEIA SAT^^UINALIS. 



ScopoLi. Paeneli,. Hookee and Aenott. Smith. Babington. 



LlNDLET. DeAKIN. SiNCLAIE. 

 PLATE LXXII. 



Panicum sanguinale, 



SyntJierisma ■oulgare, 

 Ischcsmon " 



Smith. Linnjeits. Koch. 



KtTNTH. Enapp. 



CUETIS. SCHEEBEB. HuLL. 



HtrDsoir. Witheeins. 



WiLLDENOW. MaETTN. 



Ehehaet. Maceeioht. 

 scheadee. soheebbe. 



LoBEL. GeEAEDE. 



The Hairy Finger Grass. 



Digitaria — From a finger. 



Sanguinalia — Of blood. 



DiGiTAEiA. Spike compound. Two British, examples^ Named from the 

 Latin. 



A HANDSOME but useless agricultural Grass, supposed to 

 have been introduced. Occasionally met with in England. 



Native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, America, 

 North Africa, and the "West Indies. 



Stem branched; base decumbent, then erect, striated and 

 polished; having four brief, flat, somewhat broad, rough leaves 

 with hirsute sheaths, the upper one extending considerably 

 beyond its leaf. Joints three. Inflorescence digitate; branches 

 lengthy, erect, and linear; from three to nine in number. 

 Spikelets dorsally compressed, oblong-lanceolate, of two very 



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