. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries. Illustrated by a flora of northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants; Plants. CLXI. GRAMINEJE. 593 brous, nerved, twice longer than the ovate-lanceolate glume; st. about 2f high, erect, scarcely scabrous; bracts and Ivs. long, not wide; light green.—Wet places in meadows, common, and has been ranked under C. bullata. 138. C. mirata. Dew. (C. arista. Dew. not of R. Br.) cf Spikes 2 or more, long-cylindric ; 9 spikes about 2, long-cylind
. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries. Illustrated by a flora of northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants; Plants. CLXI. GRAMINEJE. 593 brous, nerved, twice longer than the ovate-lanceolate glume; st. about 2f high, erect, scarcely scabrous; bracts and Ivs. long, not wide; light green.—Wet places in meadows, common, and has been ranked under C. bullata. 138. C. mirata. Dew. (C. arista. Dew. not of R. Br.) cf Spikes 2 or more, long-cylindric ; 9 spikes about 2, long-cylindric, pe- dunculate, subdenserflowered, suberect; perig. ovate, conic, long rostrate, cos- tate, bifurcate, glabrous, subinflated at the base, about equaling the ovate, long-setaceous or long-awned glume; st. about 2f high, rough; Ivs. and bracts longer than the stem; light green.—Shores of lake Ontario, N. Y. SartweU. Also found in the State of FIG. 53.—I. Carex; a single, fertile flower; a, the glume; b, the perigynium, containing the ovary with (c) the three stigmas. 2. Scirpus lacustris; the inflorescence. 3. A single (magnified) flower, showing the 6 hypogynous bristles of the perigynium, ovary with three stigmas, and the three stamens. Order CLXI. GRAMINE^E.—Grasses. Herbs perennial, with fibrous or bulbous rhizomas, or often annual or biennial. Stems (culms) cylindrical, fistular, closed at the nodes, covered with a coat of silex, often solid. Lvs. narrow and undivided, parallel-veined, alternate, with a sheath spht down to the nodes, and a mem- branous ligula or stipule at the juncture of the blade and sheath. Inflorescence arranged in spikes, racemes or panicles. Fls. generally perfect, in little spikelets composed of bracts imbricated in 2 rows. Glumes.—Outer bracts (calyx, Linn.) generally 2 and unequal, sometimes 1 only. Palece— Inner bracts (corolla, Linn.) 2, alternate, the lower (exterior) one simple, the upper (interior) often doubly carinat
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