Pers.

“Shásh” (in Pers. urine) a light turband generally of muslin.

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This species is closely allied to _Cynodon dactylon_, Pers., but differs from it in the following respects: -- The absence of stoloniferous underground branches, leaves short and not finely pointed; spikes not exceeding five; the _second glume_ is always equal to or longer than the

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(Ctesias, Pers., xli; Herodian, I, i, 38), and in Japan during the tenth century b.c. Of its origin in these regions little is known, but Egypt has always been regarded as the place whence the disease was carried into the Western world.

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