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

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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$veins broader than the gl., nut oblong narrowed below with a short slender beak, st. trigonous smooth.—E. B. S. 2758.—St. 1—4 ft. high, with convex faces. Spikes rather distant. Gl. usually short, narrower than the yellowish-green fr., reddish purple with a pale midrib.—Alpine boggy tablelands of the Clova Mountains and in the valley bv the bridge at Clova. P. YU. J . o g 29. C. vulgaris (Fries) ; spikes erect, male 1 or 2, fertile .3—4 subsessile cylindrical, bracts with short auricles leaflike, fr. elliptic plane-cotivex with many veins below and a short entire beak, nut roundish very blunt, st. triquetrous rough towards the top. —C. ccespitosa Sm., _& £. 1607. C. Goodenovii Gay.—St. about a foot high. L. slender, not keeled. Bracts without sheaths. Spikes near together, short. Gl. blunt, shorter than fr., purple; keel slender, pale green. Fr. greenish or with a purple tinge. Nut rather broader than long.—Marshes. P. V. VI. E. S. I. [ C. Gibsdni (Bab.) ; fr. lanceolate acute, nut hroadlij ohovoid.— A. JV. 11. xi. t. 5.—St. 6—8 in. high. Perianth nearlij twice as long as the nut, gradually narrowed from below the middle to the top. Perhaps a montrosity of C. vulgaris.—Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire! Not recently found. P. VI.] E. tt Nut vsdth 3 angles. Stigmas 3, rarely 2. X Fruit glabrous. Terminal spike male at its base, .30. C. alp'ina (Sw.) ; spikes 1—4 roundish or oblong conti- guous nearly sessile, fr. obovnid veinless rough above with a short notched beak, gl. acutish falling short of fr., nut obovoid triquetrous blunt with a short cylindrical beak, bract scarcely overtopping the spikes, st. triangular rous-h towards the top.— £. t. 356. C. Vahlii K B. S. 2666. Schk. Gg. 94 & Ppp. 154. B. 235.—St. 6—12 in. high, erect. Gl. brown or black.—Glen Oallater and Glen Fiagh, Clova. P. VII. S. 31. C. Bu.rbaum'ii(Wa.h\.) ; spikes 3—4 oblong sessile conti- guous, the lowest shortly stalked rather distant, fr. oval blunt comp7-essed (ultimately tngonous) bidentate roughish above veined, i;/. c!fS7)(c?«ie lower exceeding'fr., nut obovoid trigonous blunt apiculate, lower bract leaflike.—E. B. S. 2885. H. b. 11. Schk. X. & Gg. 76. B. 235. B. 438.—St. 1—2 feet liigh, triquetrous, rough. Sheaths of the I. connected by netlike filaments. Gl. nearly black, with a green keel prolonged into a cuspidate point. Fr. glaucous green.—llarbour Island neai' Toom Bridge, Lough Neagh. P. VI. I.$