Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington.

  • Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.
Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    temato or opposite, l-veinecl, pellucid, remotely denticulate. Ovaiy solitary, axillary, sessile, oblong. Style short.—Deep lakes. A. Vlil. S. I. Division III. GLUMIFEEiE. (Orders XOVH. and XCVIII.) Leaves parallel-veined, jjersistent. Floral envelopes imbri- cate, bractlike. Order XCVII. CYPEEACEJE. Fl. perfect or unisexual, each from the axil of a scale (or glume) imbricate on a common axis. Perianth 0, or rarely mem- branous. Stam. hypogynous (3 or rarely 2 in our plants), with sometimes a row of bristies or abortive filaments. Anth. erect, entire at the apex. Ovary 1-celled, 1 ovide at its base, often surrounded by bristles or enclosed in a bottle-shaped perianth. Style simple, trifid or bifid. Embryo enclosed within the base of the albumen.—L. with entire sheaths. Tribe 1. CTPERE^. Fl. perfect. Gl. 2-ranked. Perianth 0. 1. Cyperus. Spikelets 2-ranked, many-flowered. Gl. of 1 valve, many, keeled, nearly all with flowers. 2. ScHCENUS. Spikelets 2-ranked, 2—4^flowered. Gl. G—9; several lower ones smaller, empty. Bristles few or 0. Tr. II. SCinrEJE. Yl. perfect. Gl. imbricate on all sides. Perianth 0. * Lowest glumes empty or amalkr than the others. .3. Cladium. Spikelets 1—3-flowered. 01.5 or (i. Bristles 0. Nut with a thickji'eshij coat, tij)])tid witli the conical base of the styk;. 4. Rhyncucspoha. Spikelets few-flowered. Gl. (3 or 7. Uridle.t about (5. Nut compressed, convex on both sides, crowned with the dilated base of the style. ** Lowest glume empty or larger than the ot/iers, sometimes all fertile. t Bristles .scarcely equalling the glume or wanting. 5. Elicochabis. One or 2 lowest gl. broader, empty. Bris- 82
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