Digitaria.~\ 
CVII. GRAMINEjE. 
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Muddy salt-marshes, on the east and south-east coasts of England. 
if.. 8. — A remarkably stiff rigid plant. Culms 1 — 2 ft. high, 
covered with the sheathing bases of the short pungent leaves (involute 
when dry). Inner glumella longer than the larger glume, which is a 
third longer than the smaller one. 
2. S. alternijlora Loisel. ( many-spiked C.) ; partial spikes nu- 
merous, larger glume 5-nerved fringed with a few distant short 
bristly hairs on the keel otherwise glabrous, outer glumella 3- 
nerved glabrous slightly toothed on the keel above, partial 
rachis much produced beyond the spikelets with a tlexuose awn- 
like point, leaves equal to or longer than the spikes dilated at 
the base continuous with the sheath and all persistent. E. B. S. 
t. 2812 : Pui'ii. Gr. t. 75. S. glabra Muhl. S. laevigata Link. 
Itchin Ferry, Southampton. 2). 8. — Inner glumella longer than 
the outer one, but shorter than the larger glume, which is 2 — 3 times 
longer than the smaller one. Much taller than the preceding; but 
Mr. Bentham states that in North America, where it is frequent, it 
passes gradually into the other. 
43. Cynodon Rich. Dog’s-tooth-grass. (Tab. IX. f. 40.) 
Spike compound. Partial spikes spreading, digitate or race- 
mose. Spikelets almost sessile, awnless, arranged in a single 
row on one side of the partial rachis , laterally compressed, with 
one fertile and a rudimentary neuter floret. Glumes 2, nearly 
equal, spreading. Glumellas 2, compressed, outer one cymbi- 
form, at length hardened and inclosing the caryopsis. Styles 
2, elongate, distinct. Stigmas oval. — Named from k vmv, a dog, 
and odove , a tooth. 
1. C. Ddctylon Pers. ( creeping D.) ; partial spikes 3 — 5 digi- 
tate, outer glumella longer than the glumes glabrous on the 
sides somewhat ciliate on the keel and margins, leaves downy 
beneath, stem creeping at the base. E. B. t. 850 : Pam. Gr. 
t. 72. 
On the sandy sea-shore, rare. Cornwall, near Penzance ; Stud- 
land, Dorset; Devonshire. If. 7, 8. — Culms 4 — 6 inches high. 
Leaves on the barren shoots flat and spreading, on the stems usually 
folded. Ligule a tuft of a few hairs. Spikelets purplish. Neuter 
floret a mere beardless bristle thickened at the end, more than half 
the length of the glumellas. 
44. Digitaria Scop. Finger-grass. (Tab. IX. f. 41.) 1 
Spikes compound. Partial spikes somewhat digitate. Spike- 
lets in pairs on short unequal pedicels, arranged on one side of 
1 Although, to simplify the arrangement, we have placed this genus at a consi- 
derable distance from Fantcunt. most of the species scarcely differ from it, while 
some foreign ones have beeu referred to Faspalum. 
