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floret sometimes absent. Stamens 3 or 2. Styles long; stigmas 2, 
protruded at the apex of the floret between the tips of the pales. 
Caryops dorsally compressed, not furrowed, or furrowed on the face 
furthest from the rachis. 
GENUS V—D IGITARIA. Scop. 
Spikelets in pairs, one of which is sessile, the other shortly stalked, 
arranged unilaterally in 2 rows on the digitately or racemose-digitately 
disposed branches of a compound spike, dorsally plano-convex, closed 
daring flowering, each containing a single perfect floret with the rudi- 
ment of a second neuter one beneath it. Glumes 2, very unequal, the 
lower one minute or obsolete, the upper one shorter than the pales, 
5 to 7 ribbed on the back, acute but not awned, subscarious. Pales 
2, equal, parchment -like, not ribbed, smooth, acute but not awned, 
concave, not keeled on the back, the neuter floret with but 1 pale, 
■which 13 ribbed and resembles the upper glume. Lodicules 2, fleshy. 
Stamens, 3. Styles 2, terminal, elongate ; stigmas short, rather thick, 
jilumose, protruded at the apex of the flower. Caryops glabrous, free, 
bi-convex, not furrowed. 
TMs genus is named in allusion to the disposition of the spikes, which are apart 
like fingers. 
SPECIES L— DIGIT ARIA HUMIPUSA. Fers. 
Plwe MDCXCI, 
r.y,cl. Ic. ¥1. aerra. ct Helv. Tel. I. Tab. CLXXXVm. Fig. r.OO. 
r,nh,f, FI. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 878. 
D, filifonnis, Eiil. Eeich. le. I.e. p. 68. 
D. crlabra, Z?/j„,. k >V/p/Z/-'s'. Tarl Fl. Ital. Vol. L p. V17. 
Paspaluni ambtguiim. I). (J. Fl. Fr. \'ol. L p. 127. 
Panicnm giahmm. a.n,.?. IL..,k. jll. Stud. Fl. p. iir,. K, ,-h, S-jv. Fl. Germ, et Helv. 
ed. ii. p. Gr.jn. & (ru.h: Fl. de Fr. Vol. 111. p. ir.-J. Kunth, Euum. Plant. 
P. humifasnm. Kanth. Gram. Vol. 1. p. 
Stems prostrate. Leave? and sheaths glabrous. Spikes 2 to 8, 
dio-itato-raccmo.-e. Spikelets f>val-elliptical. Lower glume rudi- 
iLpriTfuy, upper (»ne as b,ng as the pales. Pale of the neuter floret 
pubescent, with thf nerve- dabrous, -imikir to the upper dumo. 
In -anuy placf-, and a wcvd in gard^m gn-und. P.are. Xt'ar rhri.t- 
rlinrdi. <n the AVimborne Load. Ibiuf- ; mi Wtyhrife 
uiid adjai;eiit Gurdeiis, Surrey j .-.bout Ipi^v, Ich taid ruti-ay. Suflblk. 
