. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants ; with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. 110 OaBBR 166.âGRAMINE^i; Order CLVI. GRAMINE^. Grasses. Herbs, rarely woody or arborescent, with (mostly) hollow, jointed culms; with leaves alternate, distychous, on tubular sheatbs split down lo the nodes, and a li^k (stipules) of membranous texture where the leaf joins the sheath. Flowers in little spikelets of 1 or several, with glumes distychously arranged, and collected into spikes, racemes or panicles. Glumes, tho lo
. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants ; with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. 110 OaBBR 166.âGRAMINE^i; Order CLVI. GRAMINE^. Grasses. Herbs, rarely woody or arborescent, with (mostly) hollow, jointed culms; with leaves alternate, distychous, on tubular sheatbs split down lo the nodes, and a li^k (stipules) of membranous texture where the leaf joins the sheath. Flowers in little spikelets of 1 or several, with glumes distychously arranged, and collected into spikes, racemes or panicles. Glumes, tho lower pair of .scales in the spikelel, alter- nate, enclosing the fls. Pales (palifi) the outer pair of scales of each particular flower, unequal. Scales (perianth) usually 2 or 3, minute, hypogynoui?, distinct or united. Stamens 1â6, commonly 3, anthers versatile, of 2 distinct cells. Ovary simple 'with 1 ascending ovule, 2 styles and 2 feathery stigmas. Fruit a, caryopsis. Era- bryo lateral, at the bass of the farinaceous albumen. Genera 300, npecies about 8800, unlvcrfially diffused throuj,'Iiout the world, havinfr no other limits than those tlint bound vegetation in sreneral. But the species and tlieir characters are Mftdoly dilferent in different climes. In temperate zones the grasses clothe a large portion of the earth's surface with a compact, soft, green, carpet-like turf; but in tropiciil regions this beautiful grassy turf disappears and tho grasses become larger, more isolated like other plants, fewer in the number of individuals, with broader leaves and more showy ftoweis. Properties.âThis family doubtless contributes more to the sustenance of man and beast than All others combined. lu sweet and nutritious properties reside botli in the liiriiiaceous albumea ^ the seed and in the herbage. No poisonous <m' even suspicious herb is fnuiul anrumg them, with the single exception of Loliumtemalentum. The jtoisonousand medicinal E-got or Spurred Rye is only a parasitic
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