Plants and their ways in South Africa . Fig. 224.—Panicle of Brizamaxima, L. (After Bo-tanical Magazine.) 248 Plants and their Ways in South Africa panicle, and the pistillate flowers below. In Maize the stigma is neitherbranched nor feathery nor is the stem hollow. When the seed is shed,. Fig. 225.—I. Expanded spikelet of the Oat, with a fertile and barrenflower, FS ; G, glumes ; Pe, outer pale, with awn, A ; Pi, inner pale ; withinare the feathery stigmas. II. Fertile flower with outer pale removed. (FromThom^ and Bennetts Structural and Physiological Botany.) the spikelets in some genera br
Plants and their ways in South Africa . Fig. 224.—Panicle of Brizamaxima, L. (After Bo-tanical Magazine.) 248 Plants and their Ways in South Africa panicle, and the pistillate flowers below. In Maize the stigma is neitherbranched nor feathery nor is the stem hollow. When the seed is shed,. Fig. 225.—I. Expanded spikelet of the Oat, with a fertile and barrenflower, FS ; G, glumes ; Pe, outer pale, with awn, A ; Pi, inner pale ; withinare the feathery stigmas. II. Fertile flower with outer pale removed. (FromThom^ and Bennetts Structural and Physiological Botany.) the spikelets in some genera break off just above the empty glumes, some-times below them. Tricholaena is a beautiful grass with soft silky Tricholcena rosea, Nees, the glumes are rose-coloured. Phragmites communis, Trim., is a common reed used forthatching. Coix lachryma is a curious but pretty grass. The pistil-late flowers are enclosed in a hard bony involucre; the flowerscontaining stamens are borne on a stalk up through an open-ing in the top of this bead-like involucre. The popular nameof this grass is Jobs Tears . Order Restiace^e. This order is frequently confused with the grasses,Qomparison of the two will show how they differ, Classification of Plants 249 RestiacecB. GraminacecB. Flowers di
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