Archive image from page 231 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 104 PARMIXG. stamens, but the rire-plant has , :\m\ sweet envelope to hrown ami memhranons; a vernal gras.«, as we have remarked, onl}-//o. The good idea will then be obtained of the kind of tloweriug o-lume and ])ale are nearly always present, flower met with in rushes, and it will be evident but in fox-tail grass there is no pale. Lodieules that it is quite unlike a grass ilower. again, of whieh the number is usual
Archive image from page 231 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 104 PARMIXG. stamens, but the rire-plant has , :\m\ sweet envelope to hrown ami memhranons; a vernal gras.«, as we have remarked, onl}-//o. The good idea will then be obtained of the kind of tloweriug o-lume and ])ale are nearly always present, flower met with in rushes, and it will be evident but in fox-tail grass there is no pale. Lodieules that it is quite unlike a grass ilower. again, of whieh the number is usually two, are The sedges (Fig. G7) belong to the order absent in sweet vernal, fox-tail, and mat gra.'s, :, and are generally found accompanying while the feather-grass has three. rushes. They ai)parently have a close resemblance The inflorescence of grasses may be despril)ed to grasses, but are easily distinguished from them either as n/Acafe, when the spikelets are arranged close against the axis in the form of a spike, as in fox-tail (Plate 3, Fig. 2), or it is a panicle, in which case the spikelets spread out on little branches, as in the smooth meadow - grass (Plate 3, Fig. 7). There are various intermediate forms, as sweet vernal grass (Plate 3, Fig. 3). There are two groups of plants which may be, and not unfrequently are, mistaken for grasses; these are the rushes and sedges. The rushes belong to the order ), and grow in moist meadows and by the sides of streams and ponds; in the Fig. 67.—The Sedge (Carex), with its Vnperground Stem akd Rootlets. by the characters contrasted in the table below. The sedges, then, may be distinguished by their angular solid stems, entire leaf-sheaths, and the absence of ligules. Both rushes and sedges are worthless from a nutritive point of view; indeed, cattle seldom touch them on account of their brittle cha- racter, which isdue to the presence of an unusually large amount of silica. If these jilants make their a
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