. The British grasses and sedges . e Greek erion,wool, and pJiero, to bear. *** Stamens and pistils in separate flowers^ 10. KoBRfisiA.—Spikelets of 2 flowers, the upper onebearing stamens, the lower a pistil, and included withina sheathing scale. 11. Carex (Sedge).—^^/^^w^es collected into imbricatedspikes; fertile Jtoicer of 1 pistil with 2—3 stigmas,invested by an urceolate f corolla, which is persistentand becomes the outer part of the fruit, enclosing thenut; barren flower of 3 stamens, corolla from the Greek keiro^ to cut, from the sharpnessof its leaves. I. CypfiRus (Galing
. The British grasses and sedges . e Greek erion,wool, and pJiero, to bear. *** Stamens and pistils in separate flowers^ 10. KoBRfisiA.—Spikelets of 2 flowers, the upper onebearing stamens, the lower a pistil, and included withina sheathing scale. 11. Carex (Sedge).—^^/^^w^es collected into imbricatedspikes; fertile Jtoicer of 1 pistil with 2—3 stigmas,invested by an urceolate f corolla, which is persistentand becomes the outer part of the fruit, enclosing thenut; barren flower of 3 stamens, corolla from the Greek keiro^ to cut, from the sharpnessof its leaves. I. CypfiRus (Galingale). 1. C. longus (Sweet or English Galingale).—Spikelets * The plants contained in these three genera—Eleocharis, Isolepis,and Scirpus—are very difficult of discrimination, and appear to beadmitted to a new arrangement by every botanist that treats ofthem. That of Hooker and Amott is here adopted, as being themost recent. t From the Latin urccus, an oblong vessel, swollen in the middle,and contracted above and I swi:i:i- cYiiMcrs :>. uijovvn c (Vixiii- Innriii.* (• |,iH. II ^ lu AiK r.(«; m;sii SilidMiiis iiii>n<,iMs BRITISH GRASSES AND SEDGES. 13 narrow, pointed, in erect twice-compound umbels;general bracts very long, leafy; partial, short; stemtriangular; root creeping. A handsome but very rareplant, found only in a few marshes in various parts ofEngland. The umbel is leafy and composed of unequalrays; the glumes are of a reddish brown hue, withgreen keels and whitish margins; the stem is from2—3 feet high, and is sheathed at the base with severallong leaves, after the habit of the larger sedges. Theroot is succulent, and filled with a nutritive and agreeablemucilage, to which a highly aromatic bitter principleis added, having tonic and stomachic properties. Itflowers in July and August. (PI. 238*, f. 1.) 2. C. fuscus (Brown Cyperus).—Spikelefs narrow,pointed, collected into small roundish terminal heads;(/hones spreading; bracts 3, uneq
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