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CYNODON DACTYLON. 



Persoon. E. Brown. Smith. Parnell. Hookee and Arnott. 



Koch. Kunth. Babington. 



Lindley. Sinclair. Deakin. Macreight. 



plate lxxi. 



Panicum dactyhn, 



Digitaria stolonifera, 

 Agrostis linearis, 



Smith. Knatp. Lixnjsus. 

 Willdenow. Dickson. 

 Hudson. Withering. Hull. 



ScnRADER. 



Eetzuts. Willdenow. 



The Creeping Finger Grass, or Creeping Dog's Tooth Grass. 



Cynndon — Dog's Tooth. 



Dactylon- 



Ctnodon. Spike compound. Ouly one British example, the Cynodon 

 dactyhn; named from the Greek. 



A pretty and singular Grass, common on the south-west coast 

 of Cornwall, growing amongst the sand, but not. found else- 

 where. Of no agricultural use. 



A native of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, the 

 Mediterranean Islands, United States, West Indies, North Africa, 

 and West Asia. 



Stem smooth, base procumbent and then erect, bearing four 

 or five flat, rigid, acute, hirsute leaves, with smooth striated 

 sheaths, the upper one extending considerably beyond its leaf, 

 destitute of a ligule, but furnished with a tuft of hairs. 

 Inflorescence digitate, linear, and purplish. Spikelets laterally 

 compressed, of two glumes and one floret; glumes almost equal, 



