. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . l umbels or clusters; bristles usually many, long and silky,at maturity much exceeding the scales in length; stems more orless leafy. Cotton-grasses . . 300 Spikelets few-flowered, in terminal and axillary clusters; lower scalesempty; bristles usually present; stems leafy. Beaked-rushes . . 300 II.— Stamens and Pistils in separate flowers. Staminate and pistillate spikelets in the same or in diflFerent clusters; staminate spikelets many-flowered, pistillate spikelets i-flowered; b
. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . l umbels or clusters; bristles usually many, long and silky,at maturity much exceeding the scales in length; stems more orless leafy. Cotton-grasses . . 300 Spikelets few-flowered, in terminal and axillary clusters; lower scalesempty; bristles usually present; stems leafy. Beaked-rushes . . 300 II.— Stamens and Pistils in separate flowers. Staminate and pistillate spikelets in the same or in diflFerent clusters; staminate spikelets many-flowered, pistillate spikelets i-flowered; bristles none; seed not enclosed in a sac; stems leafy. Nut-rushes .... 303Staminate and pistillate flowers in the same or in different spikes; seed enclosed in a sac; stems leafy. Sedges 304 CYPERUS. (Cyperus) The sedges of this genus have been known under differentnames, and as Galingale, Earth-nuts, and Bulrushes,many species have served the world since the days of remoteantiquity. The far-famed Papyrus of the Nile is a Cyperus whosemany uses it is unnecessary to recount, and in Isaiah we note the 260. YELLOW \UT-(;RASS {Cyprria esctilenlux). Xatural size
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