. Elementary botany . Fig. 336. Flowers of Carex lupulina; staminate flower spike above, three pistillate flower spikes below. Details of pistillate and staminate Bowers shown at the right. The flowers are very much reduced here, and each of the pistillate flowers consists «»1 one pistil which i- surrounded by a flask-shaped scale, the/v;7- pynium. These perigynia can he distinctly seen upon the spike. At the .iprx «,i the perigynia the three styles emerge. Just below each perigynium

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