. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. t-stockcreeping, tuberiferous; culms triquetrous,leafy. Leaves flat, keeled. Spikelets Irownorhtff, ovate-oblong, .01 to .015 long, in aterminal head, or an unequally short or long-rayed, simple or compound umbel, subtendedby an involucre longer than rays; glumesovate, acutely Ujid, with an awn in the sinus;stigmas 3; akenes glossy, triquetrous—Sum-mer — Ditches and swamps; common through-out. Var. biforuiis, Post. Spikelets on thesame plant, some of the typical form, a
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. t-stockcreeping, tuberiferous; culms triquetrous,leafy. Leaves flat, keeled. Spikelets Irownorhtff, ovate-oblong, .01 to .015 long, in aterminal head, or an unequally short or long-rayed, simple or compound umbel, subtendedby an involucre longer than rays; glumesovate, acutely Ujid, with an awn in the sinus;stigmas 3; akenes glossy, triquetrous—Sum-mer — Ditches and swamps; common through-out. Var. biforuiis, Post. Spikelets on thesame plant, some of the typical form, and othersin separate umbels cylindrical, .03 to .035 long,.005 in diameter — Ditch; Mejdel-Shems(Hermon). * * * Inflorescence terminal, sinlcelets 3-4 in a head loithout involucre, hut each suhtended hy a hract with an awn a Utile longer than spikelet. 9. S. Libaiioticus, Post. 2( .5; root-stock creeping; culms erect, triquetrous,leafy. Leaves flat, keeled, sheath ovoid-oblong, .005 to .007 long,short-peduncled or sessile in a terminal head,each subtended by an ovate, obtuse, membran- 108 Fig. Inflorescence of ScirpusLibanoticus, 834 CYPERACE^. (sedge FAMILY.) ous bract, with awn as long as or a little longer than spikelet;glumes oblong, obtuse, puberulent, aristate; stigmas 3; akenes tri-quetrous, glossy, one-third as long as glume — October ~ Ain-Zehalta(Lebanon). * * * * Iiiflojesccnce terminal, spikelets in a two-ranked, terminal Sjnhe,siibtended h/ a single involucre leaf, longer than spike. 10. S. conipre§SH§, L. If .2 to .3; root-stock creeping, stolon-iferous; culms compressed-terete, angled above. Leaves ratherremote, linear, long-taperiug, keeled below. Spikelets 6-8-flowered,spindle-shaped, .006 , acute, crowded into an oblong spike,.03 to .03 long, .006 to .008 broad, sometimes interrupted at base;glumes nearly 4-ranked, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, brown, many-nerved; styleexserted, bifid; akeneellipsoid, compressed, finely
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