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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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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    with short sheaths, gl. blunt (?), fr. suhglobose inflated rihbed smooth suddenly contracted into an erect narrow rough-edged bihd beak, nut obovoid-trigonous punctate, st. trigonous smooth. —Sy. E. B. 1674. H. b. 23. R. 272.—Much like, but distinct from, C. fiava. Fertile spikes smaller. Fr. much smaller than those of C. fiava, more in niunber, with a shorter and narrower-based beak which is conical when young. Very variable in height.—Bogs. P. VI. VII. E. S. 1. 55. C. exten'sa (Good.); fertile spikes oblong near together subsessile lower one rather distant with a short included stalk, bracts very long leaflike with short sheaths, gl. mucronate, fr. ovoid triquetrous ribbed narrowed into a straight smooth-edged hi/Id heah, nut ohlonq-eUiptic triangular smooth.—E. B. 8.3-3. 8chk. V. Xx. 72. H. b. 32. R. 27i.—St. usually curved, 8—12 in. high, trigonous, smooth, usually exceeding the leaves. Barren spike neai'ly sessile, blunt; gi. blunt. L. and bracts very narro%c, convolute, long.—Marshes, chiefly near the sea. P. VI. E.S.I. 56. C. Hornschuchidna (Hoppe) ; fertile spikes ovate-oblong distant with stalks exceeding the long sheaths, glumes ovate not mucronate, ovoid triquetrous rough-edged also scariom in the notch, nut obovoid trigonous nearly smooth.—H. b. 40. R. 252. C. speirostachya <S'm., i/. B. S. 2770.—Rootstock often creeping. St. trigonous, rough-edged, about a foot high. Lowest bi'act often reaching up to or beyond the barren spike.—Bossv places. P. VI. '''E. S. I. [C. .vanthocarpa (Degl.) has tufted stems,ovate-acute glumes, spreading fr. not scarious in the notch. It is said to be not uncommon. I do not know it.— C.fidva Good., Sm., was an error.—See J. of B. xiv. 366.] 57. C. punctata (Gaud.) ; fertile spikes erect cylindi-ical with slightly exserted stalks particularly the lowest, bracts sheathing, gl. ovate shortly awned, spreading ovoid tumid obscurely veinedpellucidly punctate with Vilinear bidentates?«oort beak, nut ovoid-rhomhoidal narrowed at both ends triangular rough.—H. h. 37. Kunze Riedg. 6. R. 251.—St. smooth, 1—2 feet high, slender. Spikes distant or the upper ones near ; stalks slightly (the lowest often greatly) exserted, rough; lowest ?pike often very distant. Gl. pale red with a broad green longitudinal dorsal band. Fr. pale. Nut brown. Gl. of barren spike blunt. —Marshy places near the sea. P. VI. E. S. I. 58. C. dis'tans (L.); fertile spikes remote erect oblong, upper with included stalks, bracts with sheaths, gl. mucronate, fr. ascending ovoid trigonous equally and faintly ribbed pellucidly punctate smooth, edges of tlie bifld narrow beak rougli. ntrt. triquetrous roughish obovoid mirrowed beloio.—E. B. 1234.
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