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Natural f, 

 size, Iiat, 



CYNOSURUS CRISTATUS. 



CRESTED DOQSTAIL. 



Eootstock perennial, stoloniferous. Stems 1 to 2 



feet, tufted, erect, smooth, and wiry. Leaves very 



SEED OF narrow, ribbed, slightly hairy ; 



CYNOSURUS CRISTATUS, gj^eath smooth ; ligule short and 



(Crested Bogstail.) -iti j 



I bind, ranicie spike-iike, secund. 

 Spikelets many-flowered, ovate, 

 with a barren spikelet 

 consisting of empty glumes 

 arranged in a pectinate manner 

 at the base. Empty glumes 

 sharply pointed, shorter than 

 flowering glumes, unequal, with 

 prominent rough keels. Flower- 

 ing glumes lanceolate, with a 

 short awn at summit. Palea 

 ^ , ^ ., . „.. , very thin, shshtly ciliated. 



Pront and side news magnified J ' d ./ 



10 diameters. Flowers July and August. 



Grows in dry hilly pastures throughout Europe, 

 Western Asia, and North Africa. 



ANALYSIS. 



