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Curt. 242—(j E. Bot. 84.'). E.)-r -Schreb. 16— H. Ox. viii. 3. row 1. 2— 
Buxb. v. 65 — Clus. ii. 217. 2— Lob. Ohs. 13. 1— Ger. Em. 27. 2— Park. 
1178. 1— Ger. 25. 2 —C.B. Th. 114— J. B. ii. 444. 1— FI. Dan. 388— 
Spikes,. §c. Leers 2. 6 — Scheuch. 2. 11. G. H. 
(Stems numerous, bent, and decumbent at the base, then ascending, about a 
foot long, jointed, leaf} 7- , striated, smooth. Leaves broad, striated, wavy 
at the edges, besprinkled with little warts, many of which bear bristly 
hairs. Spikes from three to eight, alternate, spreading, crowded at the 
top of the stem, many-flowered. Bloss. dark, purplish. Summits , and 
often Anthers violet-coloured. Sm. E.) 
Cock’s-foot Panics Grass. (P. sanguinale. Linn. With. Curt. Willd. 
Sm. FJ. Brit. Hook. Schreb. Ehrh. Digitaria sanguinalis. Hall. Juss. 
Sm. Eng. FI. E.) Corn-fields near Battersea; and Martha’s Chapel, 
Guildford. Hudson. At Witchingham, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward; (not 
found there at present. Smith. Near Henham, between Beccles and 
Saxmundham. Lightfoot. Sunderland Ballast Hills. Mr. Weighell. 
Winch Guide. E.) A. July—Aug.* 
(CY'NODON.f Cal. of two spear-shaped, acute, spreading, 
equal valves, shorter than the blossom. Bloss. of two 
compressed very unequal valves. Seed enveloped in the 
persistent indurated blossom. 
C. dactylqn. Spikes four or five, digitate, expanding, villous at the 
base : flowers solitary: roots with creeping runners. 
Plate XXI.— Dicks. H. S. —( Hort . Gram. E. Bot. 850. E.)— Clus. ii. 
217— Lob. Obs. 12. 1 —Ger. Em. 28. 3—Park. 1179. 5—C. B. Th. 112. 
113— II. Ox. viii. 3. row 2. A—Barr. 753. 1— H. Ox. ib. 6— Spikes , Mont. 
99 — .Scheuch. 2. 11. I. ( Jones’s Works, v. 5. 8vo. E.) 
This species seems first to have been found by Mr. Newton, as recorded in 
Itay. Syn. 399, who justly rejects the syn. of Bauh. Pin. 7, which Lin- 
nseus probably copied from Scheuchzer of the older writers, and Hudson 
from him, overlooking the rejection of it by Itay. Mr. Stackhouse sup¬ 
plied me with specimens, and the drawing from which the annexed plate 
has been engraven. The same gentleman also favoured me with the 
following remarks on its structure, which agree well with those of 
Scheuchzer .—Root greatly creeping through the loose sand, with strong 
fibres at the knots. Stem rarely exceeding six inches in height. Leaves 
sheathing, the sheath parting from the straw when old, glaucous, hairy 
or pubescent throughout. Spikes four, diverging, dark purple, changing 
to chesnut colour, near swo inches long, not more hairy than the other 
parts of the plant. Florets all on one side of the spike-stalk, awnless. 
(Stems creeping to a considerable extent, matted, very smooth. Flowers 
purplish, ranged in two close alternate rows. The corolla is longer than 
the calyx, very much compressed, opposite with respect to the latter. 
Sm. E.) 
* All the stems which lie near the ground take root,, and by this means, though 
an annual and short-lived plant, it increases and spreads very wide. Miss Jennings. 
(It yields abundance of seed, of which small birds are very fond. According to 
Schreber it is cultivated in Germany for the seed, which when prepared with much 
trouble by a peculiar process, and boiled with milk or wine, form a palatable food, 
used whole in the manner of sago. Sinclair states the nutritive powers of the herbage 
to be very inconsiderable. E.) 
j* (Synonymous with the descriptive English name. E.) 
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