Volume 6

The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain : and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails / by Anne Pratt.

  • Pratt, Anne, 1806-1893.
Date:
[1873]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain : and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails / by Anne Pratt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    2. Scikenus (Bog-rush).—Spikelets 2-ranked, 1—4- flovvered; glumes 6—9, outer ones smaller, empty; bristles small, or wanting. Name in Greek denoting “ a cord, ’ ’which was so m etimes made from plants of this tribe. * * Flowers with both stamens and pistils; glumes imbri- cated on all sides. 3. Cla'dium (Twig-rush).—Glumes about 6 in a spikelet, the outer ones smallest, and all but one or two empty; bristles wanting; fruit a coated nut. Name in Greek denoting “ a twig.” 4. Rhyncospora (Beak-rush).—Spikelets few-flowered; glumes about 6, the outer ones smaller and empty ; bristles about 6; nut slightly flattened, crowned with the dilated base of the style. Name of Greek origin, and signifying “beak-seed.” 5. BiYsmus.—Spikelets arranged in the form of a 2-ranked spike; glumes imbricated on all sides, the outer ones longer and empty; bristles several; nut slightly flattened on one side, gradually tapering into the hardened style. Name in Greek denoting “a spring,” near which plants of the genus grow. 6. Eleociiaris(Spike-rush).—/^‘/i’YYmany-flowered, solitary, terminal; glumes nearly all fertile, the outer largest; bristles 2—6, short; style 2—3-cleft, jointed upon the germen; fruit crowned with the permanent base of the style. Name from the Greek elos, a marsh, and chairo, to rejoice. 7. Isolepis (Mud-rush).—Spikelets many-flowered, terminal; glumes nearly all equal and fertile; bristles wanting ; styles 2—3-cleft, not thickened at the base,