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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...Parasitica. They are a kind of small flies remarkable for their extremely minute head and large, elevated thorax. The females are provided with an ovipositor by which they make holes where they deposit their eggs in different parts of plants, thus producing those excrescences which are known as galls. CYNOCEPHALUS, sl-no-sef'a-lus (Gr. "doghead") a genus of monkeys including the various species of baboon (q.v). CYNODICTIS, si-nd-dlk'tis, a genus of primitive Canida (see Docs, Fossil) of the Oligocene Epoch in Europe and America, a collateral ancestor of the modern dog family. It was of weasel-like proportions, with long tail, small brain, civet-like teeth and other primitive characters. Most of the species were small. CYNODON DACTYLON, CAPRIOLA DACTYLON, BERMUDA or BAHAMA GRASS, a low, creeping, perennial grass found in most warm and tropical countries, where from its drought-resisting capacity it is used as a common pasture grass. It has delicate leaves and upright, leafy flowering branches which bear three to seven slender divergent spikes. Three of the four species are Australian. In the United States it is dispersed from Pennsylvania to Florida and westward to Texas and California, being hardy from Philadelphia southward. It grows freely on poor, sandy soils, but the leaves are short; on good soil it will grow one or two feet high. It will grow on almost any soil, if not too wet. Its root-stock runs readily, thus making it a valuable grass for binding drifting sands and for holding embankments liable to wash. Being insensible to heat and drought it soon makes a fine sod equally useful for grazing or for a lawn. It is also used for hay and is in bloom from April to October. It will not grow in the shade and it is easily...
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