10. GRAMINEiE. 99. Mibora. 1.55 
PL end.ph. 
LVIII. 99. MIBORA. Adanson. Dwarf -lent. 
Spathelles alternate, truncated, fringed, longer than the 
spathellules, lower smallest; lower spathellule torn; jaggs 
bristled; upper not nicked; ovary beaked; beak naked; 
stigmata villous; cariopsis free, not furrowed. — Spike simple, 
few-flowered ; rachis flexuose ; locustce nearly sessile. 
Mibora verna. Spring dwarf -bent. 
Spike filiform ; locustce elliptical, large and truncated 
at top. 
Gramen minimum Anglo-Britannicum Lobelii, Rail Syn. K k 7. 
Mibora verna, Adanson. 
Knappia agrostidea, Smith FI. Br. 1387. 
Agrostis minima, Lin. S. P. 93. 
Sturmia minima, Sturm. FI. Germ. 7, 1. 
Chamagrostis minima, De Cand. Syn. FI. Gall. 1650. 
Nardus, Guett. 
Sturmia verna, Persoon Ench. 1,72. 
Sandy shores ; annual ; April and May. 
Root fibrous; culm upright, 2 in. high, scaly and leafy 
at bottom, naked smooth and knotless above far up ; leaves 
hairlike, blunt, glandular, spotted ; sheaths very short ; 
ligula long, blunt ; spike violet, 6 or 8-flowered. 
b. Locustce 2 or many -flowered ; one barren. 
LIX. 100. DIGIT ARIA. Haller. Fingers. 
Spathelles alternate ; lower very small, often scarcely 
visible; lower flowret neuter; spathellule one, herba- 
ceous, awnless ; upper hermaphrodite; spathellules rather 
leathery, hardening, awnless ; style 2-parted ; stigmata 
aspergilliform ; cariopsis free, very slightly furrowed. — 
Spikelets simple, linear, digitate or in bundles, with a flat- 
tened membranaceous back ; locustce 1 -sided ; pedicells 2 or 
many-flowered. 
1 . Digitaria sanguinalis . Bloody fingers. 
Spikelets digitate, 3, 4, or 6 ; inside smooth at bottom ; 
between upright and spreading; locustce elliptical; spathelles 
very unequal; leaves and sheaths slightly papillose. 
Gramen dactylon latiore folio, Raii Syn. 399, 2. 
Ischaemon sylvestre latiore folio, Park. 1178. 
Ischmmon vulgare, Ger.em. 27. 
Panicum sanguinale, Lin. S. P. 84. 
Digitaria sanguinalis, Scop. Cam. 72. 
Syntherisma vulgare, Schrad. Germ. 1, 161. 
Paspalum sanguinale, Poiret Enc. Met/i. 5, 33. 
Cocks foot grass. 
