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DIGITAPJA SANGUINALIS. 



Scopoli. Paenell. Hooker and Aenott. Smith. Babington. 



LlNDLET. DeAKIN. SlNCLAIB. 

 PLATE LXXII. 



Panicum sanguinale, 



Syntherisma vulgare, 

 Ischccmon " 



Smith. Linnjecs. Koch. 

 Kunth. Knapp. 

 Curtis. Scheeber. Hull. 

 Hudson. Withering. 



WlLLDENOW. MaRTYN. 



Ehbhaet. Macreiqht. 

 Scheadee. Scheeber. 

 Lobel. Geearde. 



The Hairy Finger Grass. 



Digitaria — From a finger. 



Sanguinalis — Of blood. 



Digitaria. 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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