| + | Dactylis (Greek daktulos, a finger). Gramineae. A perennial tufted grass with flat blades, thin prominent ligules and sheaths closed nearly to the throat, grown for forage and one form for ornament. |
| + | Panicles glomerate; spikelets 2-5-fld., nearly sessile in dense 1-sided fascicles, these arranged in a panicle; lemmas hispid-ciliate on the keels, awn-tipped, compressed.—Species 1, north temperate regions of the Old World. |