Plants of the Castlemaine District

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*Digitaria sanguinalis Summer Grass
Low grass. The arms are terminal, or more often offset. The spikelets are not bristly. Very common summer grass.

*Paspalum dilatatum Paspalum
Leaves green, flat-growing. The branches join the stalk at intervals. Anthers and stigmas black. Very common.

Echinochloa crus-galli Barnyard Grass.
Awned form. Bright green, often in drains. Spikelets shortly stalked in panicles. Fairly common.

Echinochloa crus-galli Barnyard Grass.
Unawned form. Bright green, often in drains. Spikelets shortly stalked in panicles. Fairly common.

*Ehrhartia erecta Panic Veldt-grass.
Common weed. Small spikelets on slender flower stalks. Panicle branches slender.