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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    ceolate glabrous with downy margins (P).—E. B. 849. P. 70.— St. ascending, a foot long.—Not a native. A. VIII.] E. 1. D. humifusa (Pars.) ; 1. and sheaths glabrous, fl. ovate downy with glabrous veins.—E. B. S. 2G13. P. 71.—St. mo.stly procumbent, 4—8 in. long. Spikes usually 3 or 4, springing from nearly the same poiut. Spikelets in pairs, one on a longer stalk than the other.—Sandy fields, rare. A. VII. Vllt. E. 2. Echinoch'loa Pal. de Beauv, l_E. Crus-gal'li (Beauv.) ; spikes alternate or opposite, spike- lets near together, upper gl. and sterile floret awned or mucro- nate hispid, rachis hispid.—E. B. 876. P. 67. Pcmieuin L.— Near London. A. VII.] E. 3. Seta'ria Pal. de. Beauv. 1. S. vir'idis (Beauv.) ; pan. spikelike, involucral bristles with forward teeth, lower pale smooth.—Panicum L., E. B. 875. P. 68.—London and Norwich. A. VII. VHI. E. [<S'. verticilkUa (Beauv.); pan. spikelike, involucral bristles with declining teeth, lower pale smooth.—E. B. 874. P. 69. —London and Norwich. A. VII. VIII.] E. [S. glauca (Beauv.) ; pan. spikelike, invol. bristles with as- cending teeth, pales transversely rugose.—Weybridge, Surr. Tribe II. Chlorideoe. 4. Cyn'odon Bicli. 1. C. Dac'tyhn (Pers.); spikes 3—5 digitate, pales smooth their edges and keel sliglitly ciliate, 1. downy beneath, barren shoots prostrate.— E. B. 850. P. 72.—Creeping. Flowering st. 4—6 in. high, ending in a cluster of spreading niauy-fl. slender spikes. Spikelets purplish. L. on the long branclied barren shoots flat, spreading; on the othei-s usually folded.—Sandy shores. Dorset. Devon. Cornwall. P. VIEE. E. 5. Sparti'na Sckreb. 1. S. stric'ta (Both); 1. jointed to their sheaths falling short of the spikes, spikes 2—3, rachis scarcely extending beyond the last sjnJcelet, outer gl. hairy.—E. B. 380.—St. 1—2 feet high.
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