. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. :^'2S. C. 16. SCLERIA Bergius. Nut Bush Flowers monoecious; the fertile spikelets 1-flowered, usually intermixed with clusters of few-flowered staminate spikelets. Scales loosely imbricated, the lower empty. Stamens 1-3. Style 3-cleft. Achene globular, stony, bony, or enamel-like in texture. â Perennials, with triangular leafy culms, mostly from creeping rootstocks ; flowering in summer; all in low ground or swamps. Inflorescence,
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. :^'2S. C. 16. SCLERIA Bergius. Nut Bush Flowers monoecious; the fertile spikelets 1-flowered, usually intermixed with clusters of few-flowered staminate spikelets. Scales loosely imbricated, the lower empty. Stamens 1-3. Style 3-cleft. Achene globular, stony, bony, or enamel-like in texture. â Perennials, with triangular leafy culms, mostly from creeping rootstocks ; flowering in summer; all in low ground or swamps. Inflorescence, in our species, of terminal and axillary clusters, the lower clusters usually peduncled. (Name (rxX-qpia, hardness, from the indurated â -' * Achene smooth. 1. S. triglomerJta Michx. Oulm (;)-l m. high) and broadly linear mm. wide) leaves roughish ; fascicles of spikelets few, the lowest peduncled, the upper somewhat in threes; achene ovoid-globose or depressed, 2-3 mm. long, on an obscure crustaceous disk. â Low, usually sandy soil, e. Mass. and Vt. (according to John Torrey) to Ont., la., and southw. June-Aug. Fig. Var. gracilis Britten. Culms slender (3-6 dm. long) ; leaves narrower; fascicles few-flowered, the lower (2-S-flowered) S trtelomeiata "^ "^H/ long flZiform peduncles; achene nar- rower, mm. long, acutish. (Var. minor Britton.) âN. Y. and N. J. j/2. S. oligiintha Michx. Culms slender, the angles somewhat winged; leaves linear (.3-5 mm. wide), smooth except the scabrous apex ; lateral fascicles 1 or 2, usually on long exserted peduncles ; achene ovoid, on a tuberculate disk. â Woods, D. C. to Fla. and Tex. May-July. Fig. 331. * * Achene papillose, granulose or warty. S. pauciflbra Muhl. Smoothish or slightly hairy; culm. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the ori
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