. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. e. Laminalinear, with 2, acute, lateral teeth at tip, and a median and 2 lateralnerves, secondary nerves obscure. Staminate flower on a ratherlong peduncle; pistillate with only the tips of the stigmas exserted. H. uninervis, Forsk. 2f Lamina scarcely produced into arounded tip between the teeth, often tridentate by the excurrence ofthe median nerve — Summer — Tor. 8. I^AIAS, L. monoecious or dicecious, solitary or clustered at the baseof the branches. Sta
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. e. Laminalinear, with 2, acute, lateral teeth at tip, and a median and 2 lateralnerves, secondary nerves obscure. Staminate flower on a ratherlong peduncle; pistillate with only the tips of the stigmas exserted. H. uninervis, Forsk. 2f Lamina scarcely produced into arounded tip between the teeth, often tridentate by the excurrence ofthe median nerve — Summer — Tor. 8. I^AIAS, L. monoecious or dicecious, solitary or clustered at the baseof the branches. Staminate flowers: outer involucre calyptra-like,24-cleft at tip, or tubular, tapering and denticulate at tip, the innercoalesced with the anther, dehiscent with it. Pistillate fioioers : stig-mas subulate, papillose along their inner face — Aquatic, submergedannuals, with stiff, branching, slender stems, linear, spiny-denticu-late, or nearly entire, nearly opposite, leaves, which are dilated at baseand obliquely decussate, the succeeding pairs winding spirally aroundthe stem, the young leaves clustered in the CYPERACE^. (SEDGE FAMILY.) B^ll ,© Leaves ^^ ^^^- ^^l- rigid, recurved, spiny-dentate, theirsheaths ciliate-denticulate above;anther. 1-celled. Seed elliptico-cylindrical—Summer—Lake Phia-la (BirJoet-er-JRilm). 2. N. graminea, Del. 0 Leaves flaccid, spiny-ciliate, with alanceolate, denticulate astride oneither side at lase. Anther 4-celled;seed ovate-oblong — Summer —Freshwater* Coast. Axil and base of leaves of Naiasgramineii, * with carpels magnified^S diameters. Order CXX. CYPERACE^E, Juss. (Sedge Family). Grass-UJce or rush-like herbs, with fibrous roots, mostlysolid stems (culms), closed sheaths, and spiked, chiefly 3-androus flowers, one in the axil of each of the glume-like,imbricated bracts, destitute of any perigoni^om, or withhypogynous bristles or scales or a utricle in its place ; the 1-celled ovary with a single, erect, anat
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