. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. fruit of Xyris, agenus formerly referred here, are characters indicat-ing a far superior degree of evolution, and sufficientto separate it as the representative of a pecuUar or-der ; a measvire which Brown anticipated when heremarked {Prodr. 244.), that the genus Xpis, al-though placed by him at the end of Restiaceee, is certainly very different from the othergenera, in the inner segments of the perianth being petaloid, with the stamens proceed-Log from the top of their ungues,
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. fruit of Xyris, agenus formerly referred here, are characters indicat-ing a far superior degree of evolution, and sufficientto separate it as the representative of a pecuUar or-der ; a measvire which Brown anticipated when heremarked {Prodr. 244.), that the genus Xpis, al-though placed by him at the end of Restiaceee, is certainly very different from the othergenera, in the inner segments of the perianth being petaloid, with the stamens proceed-Log from the top of their ungues, and in its numerous seeds. Pipeworts are kno-wTiby their ha^^ng a membranous sheath between the glumes and ovary, and thus indicat-ing an approach to the petaloid Orders, especially to Xyrids. All are extra-Em-opean, and chiefly fovmd in the woods and marshes of South America,New Holland, and southern Africa. They have not been found in America. The tough wiiy stems of some species are manufactured into baskets and brooms. Will-denowia teres is employed for the latter pmpose, and Restio tectorum for Fig. LXXXI. Rhodocoma, , R. , R. , R. , R. Br. CuculUfera, , Kth. GENERA Willdenowia, , Neellypodiscus, , , , , Nees. Lepidanthus, , R. , R. , R. Br,Thamnochortus, , , Thunb. Chondropetalum, , Linn. Calorophus, , , , Kunth. Numbers. Gen. 23. Sp. 171 {Kunth.) Position. Cyperacese.—RESxiACEiE.—Eriocaulacese. Fig. LXXXI.—Lepyrodia hermaphrodita. 1. A dower : 2. the .same when the fruit is ripe; 3. theovaries; 4. the fruit in a state of dehiscence ; 5. the seed, cut vertically, of Restio dichotomus. 122 ERIOCAULACEiE. [Endogens.
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