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Title: The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Meehan, Thomas, 1826-1901
Subjects: Wild flowers -- United States Ferns -- United States
Publisher: Boston : L. Prang and Co.
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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n unskilled hands will be very dangerous. We know of no successful attempts at cultivating it. In allthe Instances that have come to our knowledge the plants dwin-dled from year to year, soon disappearing altogether. It isquite possible that it is a real swamp-loving plant, and may notfind water enough In ordinary garden soil. Many plants haveseeds which only germinate where the ground is wet, and theymust, of course, unless removed by art, live and die where theseeds sprout; but such plants generally do better when trans- 36 HELONIAS BULLATA. STUD-FLOWER. planted to drier ground. If this plant is indeed absolutelyrestricted to swampy ground, it is an exception to rule, and thisfact would give special appropriateness to its botanical name of swamp-lover. Explanation of the Plate.— i. Crown of the root with growing spring leaves. — 2. Scape,showing the hollow stem.—3. Showing the peculiar insertion of the flower.—4. Pullface view, showing the harmonious proportion of lines. Vr,
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FOLATE 10 Carex o m T-) r •■, TA L Pran*^ CAREX STRICTA. TUSSOCK-SEDGE. NATURAL ORDER, CYPERACE^. Carex STraCTA, Lamarck.—Pistillate spikelets 2 to 4, cylindric, slender, the upper onessessile, often staminate at the summit; perigynia ovate, acute, about as long as the lance-olate scale; culms, one to two feet high, rather slender, deeply striate, very acute andscabrous on the angles, leafy at the base, remarkably caespitose; leaves linear, keeled,often longer than the culm, radical ones very numerous; sheaths striate, sometimesfilamentous; staminate spikelets, two or three, often solitary, half an inch to near twoinches in length; pistillate spikelets three quarters to one and a half inches long, thelowest on a very short pedicel; scales reddish brown, with a green keel, variable in lengthand acuteness. (Darlingtons Flora Cestrica. See also Grays Manual, Woods ClassBook, and Chapmans Flo>-a of the Southern States.) RASSES have mostly hollow and round stems; the ^^ Sedges, wh

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