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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    branclies,_/Z. erect 3—6 exceeding the glumes, I. rough.—E. B. 1204. P. 52.—Hoot fibrous. Height nearly 21'eet. St. usually nearly round. L. usually short, narrow, acute. Pan.-branchea usually simple with only one spikelet.—jS. lonffifo/ta (Parn.); 1. much longer.—y. A. alpina (Sm.) ; st. often compressed and sheaths keeled, pan.-branches often with several 5—G-tl. spike- lets, upper pale less acute, 1. broader. I believe that none of these characters are permanent. E. B. 2141. P. 63.—A. planicuhnis of E. B. S. 2684 may belong to this species; it dilfers ])y its gi'eatly compressed st., strongly keeled sheaths and more branched panicle.—In a and /3 the lowest fl. some- times slightly falls short of the longer gl., in y exceeds it.— Dry pastures and mountainous places. P. VI. E. S. 4. A. pubes'cens (L.) ; pan. erect nearly simple, fl. erect 2 or 3 scarcely exceeding the glumes, lower /. and sheaths hairy.— E. B. 1640. P. 53.—Creeping slightly. Height 1—2 feet. L. short, rounded behind the tip.—Chalky and hmestoue districts. P. VI. E. S. I. 30. Aerhen'ath'eetm Pal. de Beauv. Oat-grass. 1. A. eUiius (M. & K.) ; 1. &&i.—IIolcvs Sm., E. B. 813. P. 25.—Height 2—3 feet. Root fibrous. Knots of the st. gla- brous, sometimes downy. Pan. long, ultimately close. Spike- lets greenish.—3. A. hulhosum (Lindl.) ; base of the st. with •swollen knobs, knots downy. 7^. 20.— Hedges and pastures. P. VI. E. S. I. Tribe XI. Festucece. 31. Trio'dia B. Br. Heath-grass. 1. T. decum'bens (Beauv.) ; pan. racemose, spikelets few oval, fl. about 4 scarcely extending bevond the glumes without awns. —E. B. 702. P. .'iO.—St. 6-12 in. higli. L. flat. Sheaths rather hairy. Ligule a tuft of hairs. Spikelets few, 1—7. Gl. smooth, coriaceous. Lower pale with 3 points, 5-ribbed, hairy at the base.—Dry places and lioaths. 1'. VII. E. S. I. 32. Kcele'ria Pers. Crested Hair-grass. 1. K. crhidta (Pers.); pan. compact spikelike interrupted below, lower pale acute, I. narrow rougli at tho edges ciliatn.— Aim E. B. 048. 1'. 10.—Hoot crowned witli tlie undivided sheaths of tlio old leaves. St. 0—18 in. Iiigh, downy ]iarticularly in the upper part. L., gl. and pales downy or glabrous. Gl, finely toothed on the keel. Lower pale finely toothed on the
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