Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . rolla less petaloid than in Xyridacea?; the six stamens often allperfect; the ovules and seeds solitary in each cell. —Ex. Eriocaulon. 958. Ord. Restiaceae consists of South African and AustralianRush-like plants, with the aspect of Cyperaceae, but with one-celledanthers and orthotiopous seeds. 959. Old. CyperaeeSB {Sedge Family). Stems {culms) usuallysolid, casspitose. Sheaths of the leaves closed. Flowers one in theax
Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . rolla less petaloid than in Xyridacea?; the six stamens often allperfect; the ovules and seeds solitary in each cell. —Ex. Eriocaulon. 958. Ord. Restiaceae consists of South African and AustralianRush-like plants, with the aspect of Cyperaceae, but with one-celledanthers and orthotiopous seeds. 959. Old. CyperaeeSB {Sedge Family). Stems {culms) usuallysolid, casspitose. Sheaths of the leaves closed. Flowers one in theaxil of each glumaceous bract. Perianth none, or a few mostly three, hypogynous. Styles two or three, more orless united. Fruit an achenium. Embryo small, at the extremityof the seed next the hilum. — Ex. Cyperus, Scirpus, Carex (Sedges).The herbage is little eaten by cattle. Some Clubrushes are usedfor making mats, chair-bottoms, &c. The papyrus of the Egyptians ENDOGENOUS OR MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 497 was made from the stems of Cyperus Papyrus. The tubers ofC. esculentus are sweet and edible, but are too small to be of muchvalue for food. 1262. 960. Old. GramilieSB (Grass Family). Stems (culms) cylindrical,mostly hollow, and closed at the nodes. Sheaths of the leaves splitor open. Flowers in little spikelets, consisting of two-ranked imbri-cated bracts ; of which the exterior are called glumes, and the twothat immediately enclose each flWer, palece. Perianth none, or inthe form of very small and membranous hypogynous scales, fromone to three in number, distinct or united (termed squamulce, squa-mellce, or lodiculce). Stamens commonly three: anthers or stigmas two; the latter feathery. Fruit a situated on the outside of the farinaceous albumen, next the FIG. 1258. Scirpus triqueter, -with its cluster of spikelets. 1259. A separate flower, en-larged, showing its rudimentary perianth of a few denticulate bristles, its three
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