nearly glabrous pedicel. Outermost valve of the calyx a
small membranous, glabrous, blunt scale : the two inner
calycine valves are nearly equal in size, ribbed and downy,
ovate. Corolla of 2 dark-purple shining valves, externally
beautifully dotted in lines; the outer one embracing the
inner one, as the latter does the seed eventually ■: so that
the seed is invested with the hardened corolla. Both the
valves have their involute margins pale and membranaceous.
The specific character and synonyms of Digitaria san-
guinalis should stand thus :
DIGITARIA sanguinalis.
Hairy Cock’s-foot Finger-grass.
S p e c . C h a u . Leaves and sheaths hairy; florets oblong,
nearly glabrous, their margins scabrous.
Digitaria sanguinalis. Scop. Cam. v. 1. 52. Engl. Flor.
v. 1. 96. Hook. Brit. FI. 57.
Panicum sanguinale. Linn. Sp. PI. 84. Curt. Lond,-—
Engl. Bot. 849.
Syntherisma vulgäre. Schrad. Fl. Germ. v. 1. 161.
We learn from Fries and Wahlenberg that this plant is
not a native of Sweden, the species inserted in the Appendix
to Fauna Suecica, under the name of Panicum sanguinale,
being D. humifusa, which Linnaeus did not distinguish from
his original P. sanguinale.—W. J. H.