GRASS FAMILY 



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pamde 6 — 12 in. long, narrow, nearly simple, with sub-erect 

 branches, only spreading when the flowers are open ; spihelets 

 J- in. long, pale greenish, 2-flowered ; lower -flower staminate, with 

 long, basal, bent, twisted awn ; upper perfect, usually awnless. — 

 Hedges and pastures ; common. (Name from the Greek arrhcii, 

 male, athh; awn.) — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



26. Cynodon (Dog's-tooth grass), of which C. Ddctylon 



."^RRHEN.^THEKL'M ElAtiTS 



{Ci^^Jniion Falst Oat). 



CYXODOX D.4CT^T.ON 

 (Crecfini*Dfg's-tcjtli /;'-ass). 



(Creeping Dog's-tooth grass) is the only British species, is a low, 

 prostrate^rass, with long, tough runners and short, tiat, glaucous 

 leaves, drstinguished from all other British grasses, except 

 Digit'dria sanguindlis and D. linearis, by the digitate arrangement 



Qj- *t^e - - slender, purplish spikes in its panicle, each of which 



ij J I -i in. long, and from those two species by having its aw-n- 



less spikclets arranged singly, not in pairs, along the spikes. — 

 Sandy pastures by" the sea in the south-western counties : verv 



