GHAMINA. 
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GENUS XXXVL—C YNOSURUS. Linn. 
Spikelets subsessile or very shortly stalked, disposed in pairs, one 
of which is fertile, the other barren and resembling a pectinated bract 
placed behind its fertile spikelet, unilaterally arranged in a dense 
continuous or slightly interrupted spike-like panicle, laterally com- 
pressed, open during flowering, each fertile one containing 2 to 5 
perfect florets. Glumes of the perfect florets 2, nearly equal, strongly 
keeled, shorter than floret, pointed, 1 -ribbed, scarious. Pales of the 
fertile florets 2, the lower one rounded on the back, 2-toothed, with 
an awn from between the teeth, 5 -ribbed, the ribs all converging 
into the avm.; upper pale 2-toothed, 2-ribbed. Lodicules 2, entire. 
Stamens 3. Styles 2, very short, terminal; stigmas plumose, protruded 
at the sides of the florets between the basal margins of the pales. 
Caryops usually adhering to the upper pale, glabrous, oblong-convex 
on the back, slightly furrowed on the inner face. 
From two Greek words, and ovpa, a tail— dog's tail. 
Section L— EU-CYNOSURUS. Coss. & Germ. 
Panicle linear. Sterile spikelets destitute of glumes, with the pales 
acuminate and mucronate. Lower pale of the fertile floret with an 
awn shorter than itself. 
SPECIES L-C YNOSURUS CRISTATUS. Linn. 
Plate MDCCLXXVI. 
Jielch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Hely. Yol. I. Tab. CSLVHI. Fig. 366. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Essicc. ifo. 1388. 
Perennial. Ca^spitose. Rootstock with numerous short barren tufts, 
and several flowering stems or rarely only one. Flowering stems 
erect, rather rigid, leafless at the apex ; uppermost knot usually below 
the middle of the stem. Leaves narrowly linear, tapering to the 
apex, rather rigid, with a few closely-placed elevated ribs, nearly 
smooth, bright green ; sheaths smooth, the uppermost one not inflated, 
about twice as long as its leaf; ligule slightly prominent, broader 
than long, truncate, higher on one side than the other. Panicle spike- 
like, linear, continuous, annotinous, distichously unilateral. Panicle- 
branches very short, nearly equal, each having I to 4 pairs of spikelets, 
ascending, smooth. Sterile spikelets without glumes, with the pales 
equally distant, linear-strap-shaped, acuminate and shortly mucronate, 
