. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 13. LIPOCArPHA R. Br. Spikelets terete, many-flowered, in a terminal close cluster involucrate by leafy bracts. Scales spatulate, regularly im- bricated in many ranks, awnless, deciduous, a few of the lowest empty. Inner scales (bractlets) 2 to each flower, thin, one between the scale of the spikelet and the flower, one between the latter and the axis of the spikelet. Stamens 1 or 2. Style 2-3-cleft. Achene flattish or triangular, naked at the t
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 13. LIPOCArPHA R. Br. Spikelets terete, many-flowered, in a terminal close cluster involucrate by leafy bracts. Scales spatulate, regularly im- bricated in many ranks, awnless, deciduous, a few of the lowest empty. Inner scales (bractlets) 2 to each flower, thin, one between the scale of the spikelet and the flower, one between the latter and the axis of the spikelet. Stamens 1 or 2. Style 2-3-cleft. Achene flattish or triangular, naked at the tip. — Culms leafy at base. (Name formed of Xliros, fat, and Kdpipos, chaff, from the thickness of the inner scales of some species.) 1. L. macuUta (Michx.) Torr. Annual; culm ( dm. high) much longer than the linear concave leaves; spikelets (3-7 mm. long) green and dark-spotted; inner scales delicate ; stamen 1; achene oblong with a contracted base. — Springy or miry places, Va. to Fla.; near Philadelphia, probably adv. My-Oct. Fig. 312. L. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888; Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln, 1864-1935; Fernald, Merritt Lyndon, 1873-1950. New York, American Book Co
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