. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. CLXl. GRAMINE/E. 593 brous, nerved, twice longer than the ovate-lanceolate glume; st. about '2f hi<^h erect, scarcely scabrous; bracts and h^s. long, not wide; light green.—Wet places in jneadows, common, and has been ranked under C. bullata. 138. C. MiRATA. Dew. (C. arista. Dew. noi of R. Br.) cf Spikes 2 or more, long-cv
. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. CLXl. GRAMINE/E. 593 brous, nerved, twice longer than the ovate-lanceolate glume; st. about '2f hi<^h erect, scarcely scabrous; bracts and h^s. long, not wide; light green.—Wet places in jneadows, common, and has been ranked under C. bullata. 138. C. MiRATA. Dew. (C. arista. Dew. noi of R. Br.) cf Spikes 2 or more, long-cvlindric ; 9 spikes about 2, long-cvlindric, pe- dunculate, subdense-flowered, suberect; perii^. ovale, conic, long rostrate, cos- tate, bifurcate, glabrous, subinilated at the" base, about equaling the ovale, long-setaceous or long-awned glume; si. about 2r high, rough; Ivs. di\\ longer than the stem; light green.—Shores of lake Ontario, N. Y. SartwdU Also found in the State of FIG. M.—1. Carex; a single, fertile flower; a, the glume; 6, the perigjmium, containing the ovary wiH <c) the three stigmas. 2. Scirpus lacustris; the inflorescence. 3. A single (magnified) flower, showini the 6 hypogynous bristles of the perigynium, ovary with three stigmas, and the three stamens. Order CLXI. GRAMINEiE.—aRAssEs. Herhn perennial, with fibrous or bulbous rhizomas, or often annual or biennial. Stems (culins) cylindrical, fistular, closed at the nodes, covered with a coat ofsilex, often solid. Lvs. narrow and undivided, parallel-veined, alternate, with a sheath split down to the nodes, and a menv branous ligula or stipule at the juncture of the blade and sheath. Inflorescence arranged in spikes, racemes or panicles. Fls. generally perfect, in little spikelefs composed of bracts imbricated in 2 rows. Glumes.—Outer (calyx, Lmn.) generally 2 and unequal, sometimes 1 oidy. PalecE.—Inner bracts (corolla, Linn.) 2, alternate, the lower (exterior) one s
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