First book of Indian botany / Daniel Oliver.

  • Daniel Oliver
Date:
1885
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: First book of Indian botany / Daniel Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    111.] Arundo {Donax).—Va.mc\t. Spikelets pedicelled, two- to four-flowered. CynodoH {Daciylon).—Digitate spikes. Spikelets sessile, one-flowered. Eleusine (Coracana and indica).—Spikes digitate. Spike- lets sessile, unilateral, two- to six-flowered. Fig. 223. Spikelet, dissected, of Vernal Grass (^Antlwxanthum). The lowest pair of scales, right and left, are the outer glumes; then come two awned empty glumes ; then, to the right, the flowering glume, and to the left the small pale; lastly the two stamens and the pistil. Hordmm (Barley). — Distichous, spicate. Spikelets sessile, temate, each one-flowered. The lateral spikelets imperfect (in two-rowed Barley) or perfect (in six-rowed Barley). Bambusa (Bamboo). — Arborescent. Spikelets sessile, clustered, or verticillate, with several perfect flowers. Stamens six. Lodicules three. Observe the stem, called a culm, usually hollow {fistular), z 2
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