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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$1-ceUed. Styles usually 2, rarely 1 or 3. Embryo on the out- side of the allDumeu and at its uase.—L. with split sheaths'. Suborder I. CLISANTHEiE. Flowers closed. Styles or stigmas long, protruded at or near to the top of the flower. A. Rachis of inflorescence without lateral excavations. Tribe I. PANICE/E. Spikelets dorsalhj compressed, \-fiowered, or with 1 fl. and an inferior glumelike rudiment or a neuter flower. Lower gl. much the smaller, often rudimentary. 1. DiGiTABiA. Spikes fingered. Spikelets in pairs on one side of the flattened rachis, awnless, 1-flowered, with an inferior rudiment. Gl. 2, lower smaller or 0, upper 3- veined. Sterile fl. of one 5—7-veined pale equalling the flower. [2. EcHiNOCiTLOA. Spikes compound, secund in the whole and in each part. Spikelets on one side of the flattened partial rachis, 2-flowered, inferior fl. rudimentary. Gl. 2, lower 3-veined, upper equalling fl. 5-veined mucronate or awned. Lower pale of sterile fl. like and equalling upper glume.] 3. Setaria. Spike cylindrical, compound. Spikelets sur- rounded by an involucre of bristles, 2-flowered ; inferior fl. rudimentary. Gl. 2, lower 3-veined, upper equalling fl. many-veined. Steiile fl. of 1 pale, like and equaUing upper glume. Tr. II. CHLORIDE/E. Spikelets laterally compressed \-Jlow- ered in our plants and sometimes witli a superior rudiment, placed in 2 rows on one side of a fiattcned rachis, or alternate and unilateral. 4. Cynodon. Spikes fingered, spreading. Spikelets 1- floworcd, awnlesH, with a sup(!rior rudiment. Gl. nearly equal, patent. Pales equal; lower boatshaped, compressed, embracing the inner. Styles long, distinct. Stigmas featliery. 5. Spautina. Spikes upright, in a raceme. Spikelets 1- ' Nearly all the gnnora of this Ordor aro beautifully figured in the Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocnitjl. vol. i. Sob also Andcrsson's PL Scand. faac. ii. and Du Mortier in Bull. Sac. Bot. Bclg. vii. 65.$