. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. pecuMar habit. Agardlirefers Bulrushes to glumaceous Monocotyledons, on account ofthe analogy between the calyx of Typha and the hypogynoushairs of Eriophorura, a genus of Sedges ; and a similar\iew of theii affinity has been taken by Link ; and in factthey do appear to constitute a direct transition from theglumaceous to petaloid Endogens, for although their floralenvelopes are mere scales, yet they are arranged in regularwhorls. In habit they are hardly distin-guishable from
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. pecuMar habit. Agardlirefers Bulrushes to glumaceous Monocotyledons, on account ofthe analogy between the calyx of Typha and the hypogynoushairs of Eriophorura, a genus of Sedges ; and a similar\iew of theii affinity has been taken by Link ; and in factthey do appear to constitute a direct transition from theglumaceous to petaloid Endogens, for although their floralenvelopes are mere scales, yet they are arranged in regularwhorls. In habit they are hardly distin-guishable from Sedges, In another pointof ^iew they may be looked upon asdimmutive species of Screw-pines (Pan-danacete), and Kunth so considered themformerly : but their simple fruit, solitaryovules, and the slit in the side of theueml^ryo, offer sufficient marks of distinc-tion. Found commonly in the ditches andmarshes of the northern parts of the world,but uncommon in tropical countries : onespecies occurs in St. Domingo, and anotherm New Holland. Two are described fromequinoctial America. They are of little knowTi use. The.
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