. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. 364 Order 154.—CYPERACE^.. 1 T. autumimlls (L.) (Fig. 5.) Culm flattened, 2-edged, very slender, 3—10'; IvB. narrow-linear, flat, much shorter ; spikes (Fig. 6) lance-oblong, very acute, 4-ro\ved,' 2", 1—3 together, many in the cyme; glumes sharp- pointed, brown ; stamens 2; achenium (Fig. 7) white smooth. (T) Wet banks, &c. 2
. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. 364 Order 154.—CYPERACE^.. 1 T. autumimlls (L.) (Fig. 5.) Culm flattened, 2-edged, very slender, 3—10'; IvB. narrow-linear, flat, much shorter ; spikes (Fig. 6) lance-oblong, very acute, 4-ro\ved,' 2", 1—3 together, many in the cyme; glumes sharp- pointed, brown ; stamens 2; achenium (Fig. 7) white smooth. (T) Wet banks, &c. 2 T. cUiatlfolia (Ell.) Culm setaceous, angular, 3—12'; leaves setaceous, ivith long brown hairs on the sheaths: cyme 5-9-rayed, often overtopped by 1 bract; spike 1—2", mostly single ; glumes acute, 4-rovved, 6—12 ; stamens 2 ; achenium white. (I) Dry, S. j3. eoarctata. Cyme contracted; spks 2—3", often 2—3 clustered together. 3 T. caitlllarts (L.) Culm capillary, angular, 3—S'; leaves setaceous, much shorter, entirely smooth ; spk. 2—4 in the simple cyme ; gls. 8—12, strongly keeled, 4-rowed; stamens 2; ach. white, equally 3-sided, tl) Sandy fields. (Fig. 8, a flower.) 4 T. borealls Wood. Culm filiform, angular, 2—4'; Ivs. linear, flat, i—2'; bracts similar, as long as the leaves; spikes capitate and in cymes, 1—5 together, ovoid, green, 1"; glumes pointed; sta. 1; ach. white, 3-angled ; sty. bulbous at base. Ci) 111. Banks of the Miss. R., 111. (./. Wo/f.) Shores of Lake Sup., Mich. (.1//-. Perkins.) 5 T. stcsiopliylla (Ell.) Culm setaceous, grooved, 2—4'; leaves setaceous, 2—3'; bracts many, 3—4 times longer than the dense head; ach. (Fig. 9) blackish. S. 6 T. Warei (Torr.) Culm filiform. If, 3-angled; Ivs. and bracts setaceous, silky-fringed at base, the latter twice longer than the head of 8—12 ovate spikes. Fla. 7 T. carluata (Hook, and Am.) Culm flattened-setaceous, .3—6', with 1 short seta- ceous leaf at base ; spk. ov
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