Cynodon
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Cynodon (Greek kuon, a dog, and odons, a tooth). Gramineae. Low creeping perennials, used for lawns and pasture. Flowers in slender digitate spikes; spikelets 1-fld., compressed, awnless, sessile in 2 rows along one side of a slender rachis.— -Species 4, in warm regions. C. incompletus, Nees. Blue Couch-grass. Occurs in E. and S. Air. and also New S. Wales, where it is used as a pasture grass. It is reported as poisoning stock, at certain stages of its growth producing hydrocyanic (prussic) acid. A. S. Hitchcock.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963