. Flowers of the field. Botany. SEDGE FAMIL^â 533 curved, about the same length ; spikelets 3 :or 4, in a dense, nearly globular head, each with a few staminate flowers at the top; jruil broad, rather inflated, tapering ,into a short beak projecting be3'ond the glumes.âSandy shores in the north ; rare.âFl. June, July. Perennial. 7. C. divisa (Bracteate Marsh Sedge).âRoot-stock stout : stems very slender, iâ3 feet high, erect; leaves long, narrow ; spikelets few, short, crowded in a head with a leafy bract at its base, several upper flowers staminate ; fruit plano-convex, not winged, with an ac
. Flowers of the field. Botany. SEDGE FAMIL^â 533 curved, about the same length ; spikelets 3 :or 4, in a dense, nearly globular head, each with a few staminate flowers at the top; jruil broad, rather inflated, tapering ,into a short beak projecting be3'ond the glumes.âSandy shores in the north ; rare.âFl. June, July. Perennial. 7. C. divisa (Bracteate Marsh Sedge).âRoot-stock stout : stems very slender, iâ3 feet high, erect; leaves long, narrow ; spikelets few, short, crowded in a head with a leafy bract at its base, several upper flowers staminate ; fruit plano-convex, not winged, with an acutely 2-fid, finely toothed beak.âMarshes near the sea ; frequent.âFl. May, June. Perennial. 8. C. disticha (Soft Brown Sedge).â Root-stock creeping : stems stouter than in the preceding, iâ3 feet high ; leaves long, narrow ; spikelets in an oblong, interrupted spike, pale brown, the middle ones staminate; fruit ovate-lanceolate, narrowly winged.âMarshy places.âFl. MayâJuly. Perennial. 9. C. areiidria (Sand Sedge).âRoot- stock very long, stout, and branched, creeping over and binding the sands ; ste))is tufted, 8â10 in. high, stout, rough, leafy at base : leaves radical, stiff, in- volute ; spikelets many, rather large. ovoid, in an interrupted spike i or 2 in. long, the upper ones staminate, the lower pistillate, and the middle ones with flowers of both kinds ; fruit ovate, veined, winged, shining chestnut-brown.âSandv sea-shores.âFl. June. Perennial. 10. C. didndra (Lesser Panicled Sedge).âRoot-stock creepuig, with scat- tered tufts ; stems iâ2 feet high, slender, 3-angled ; spikelets few, oblong, acute, forming, a dense compound spike about an inch long ; fruit ovate, swollen, brown, shining, with 2â5 ribs on the back, beaked.âBoggy meadows.âFl. June. Perennial. 11. C paradoxa, a rare form, intermediate between the preceding and following species, more densely tufted than the preceding; stem covered below by the black fibrous remains of dead leaves ; spi
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