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CY'NO DON* * 
Linnean Class and Order. TRiA'NDRiAf, Monogy'nia. 
Natural Order. Grami'neaj. Juss. — Lindl. Syn. p. 293; 
Introd. to Nat. Syst. Bot. p. 292. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 393. — 
Sir J. E. Smith’s Gram, of Bot. p. 68. Eng. FI. v. i. p. 71. — Loud. 
Hort. Brit. p. 542. 
Gen. Char. S pikelets (fig. 1.) 1-sided, in 2 or more rows, 
1-flowered, attached to a flat rachis or receptacle. Glumes ( valves 
of the calyxj 2, keeled, nearly equal, spear-shaped, pointed, awn- 
less, containing a single floret. Paleae ( valves of the corolla J 2, 
longer than the glumes, unequal, keeled, compressed, awnless, the 
outer much the broadest, and clasping the inner. Nectary of two 
minute scales (squamulae). Filaments 3, longer than the paleae or 
corolla. Anthers cloven at each end. Germen egg-shaped. Styles 
distinct. Stigmas feathery. Seed egg-shaped, coated with the 
hardened paleae (corolla). 
Distinguished from other Graminecc by the digitate or racemose 
Spikes; the 1-sided (unilateral) Spikelets; the 1-flowered Calyx 
of 2, nearly equal, spreading, boat-shaped Glumes; the Corolla of 
2, awnless, compressed Paleae ; and the Seed coated with the 
hardened Corolla. 
One species British. 
CY'NODON DA'CTY'LON. Creeping Dog’s-tooth-grass. 
Spec. Char. Spikes digitate, 4 or 5, crowded together. Paleae 
or Corolla smooth. 
Cy'nodon Dactylon, Brown’s Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae 
Van-Diemen. p. 187.— Sm. Eng. FI. v. i. p. 95. — With. (7th ed.) v. ii. p. 145. 
t. 21. — Lind. Syn. p.298. — Hook. Brit FI. p.57. — Sincl. Hort. Gram. Woburn, 
p. 290, with a plate. — C. Sarmentosum, Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 100. — Pani- 
cum Dactylon, Eng. Bot. t. 850. — Knapp’s Gram. Brit. t. 13. — Host’s leones 
et Descriptiones Graminum Austiiacorum, v. ii. p. 15. t. 18. — Huds. FI. Angl. 
(2nd ed.) p. 25. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. i. p. 67. — Digitaria stolonifera, Schrader’s 
Flora Germanica, v. i. p. 165, fide Sir J. E. Smith. — Agrostis linearis, Willd. 
Sp. PI. v. i. p.375. Ascertained by Mr. Lambert - , see Transactions of the 
Linnean Society of London, v. vii. p. 309. — Gramin repens, cum paniculd 
graminis manure, Ray’s Syn. p. 399. — Gramen dactiloides, radice repente, 
Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 28 — Durva, Sir W. Jones, in Asiatic Researches, v. iv. 
p. 248, with a figure of the Plant, at p. 252. — Beli Caraga, Rheede’s Hortus 
Malabaricus, v. xii. p. 87. t. 47. 
Locai.ities. — On the sandy sea-shore between Penzance and Market-jeu, in 
Cornwall, abundantly, where it was first observed by Mr. Newton, in the time 
of Ray. It has been since found in the same place by Mr. Stackhouse. 
Perennial. — Flowers in July, August, and September. 
Fig. 1. A single Floret, showing the 2 Glumes or Calyx, the 2 Paleae or 
Corolla, the 3 Stamens, and 2 feathery Pistils, magnified. — Fig. 2. The 3 Sta- 
mens, the Germen, and 2 Pistils, more highly magnified. 
* From cucm, a. dog, and odous, a tooth. 
t See Phalaris canariensis, p. 59. note t. 
