. The Indiana weed book. Weeds. WEEDS OF THE RUSH FAMILY. 59 hoeing throughout the season; keep fence rows clean; thick seed- ing with clover or timothy. An allied species, the straw-colored sedge (C. strigosus L.) dif- fering in propagating by solid bulb-like tubers from the base, the spikes longer and more loose and aehenes linear-oblong, is also a common weed in damp soils. Remedies the same. The Rush Family.—JUNCACEiE. Perennial or annual grass-like herbs, often growing in tufts; stems usually simple, slender, cylindrical; leaf-blades terete, grass- like or channeled, tbe sheaths with free
. The Indiana weed book. Weeds. WEEDS OF THE RUSH FAMILY. 59 hoeing throughout the season; keep fence rows clean; thick seed- ing with clover or timothy. An allied species, the straw-colored sedge (C. strigosus L.) dif- fering in propagating by solid bulb-like tubers from the base, the spikes longer and more loose and aehenes linear-oblong, is also a common weed in damp soils. Remedies the same. The Rush Family.—JUNCACEiE. Perennial or annual grass-like herbs, often growing in tufts; stems usually simple, slender, cylindrical; leaf-blades terete, grass- like or channeled, tbe sheaths with free margins. Flowers small, clustered; sepals and petals 6, chaff-like, without scales or glumes beneath them as in the two preceding families; stamens 3 or 6; ovary 1- or 3-celled with 3 stigmas. Fruit a small capsule opening at the sides; seeds usually numerous. Only about 25 kinds of rushes are known from the State. They usually occur on the sandy beaches of lakes or along the borders of marshes and swamps and resemble sedges but have the parts of the small flowers in threes, like the lily family, but not showy as there. Neither the scouring rush nor the tall bulrushes belong to this family, so that their names are misleading. Only one of the true rushes is with us to be considered as a weed. 12. .Tuncus tenuis Wl) Id. Wire-grass. Slender Rush. Yard Rush. ( 3.) Stems erect, slender, tufted, wiry, 8-20 inches high; true leaves all basal, flat, linear, half the length of stem; leaf-like bract just below the flowering portion longer than the latter. Sepals and petals green, lanceolate, acute, spreading, longer than the egg-shaped cap- sule; stamens 6. Seeds narrowly oblong with oblique ends, very small, delicately ribbed and cross-lined. (Fig. 27.) Common in dry or moist soil, espe- cially along woodland pathways, bor- ders of fields and roadsides. June- Aug. The stems axe full of elasticity and after being trodden upon by man or beast spring erect, apparently un- harmed. It
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