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Identifier: britishgrassesse00prat (find matches)
Title: The British grasses and sedges
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Pratt, Anne, 1806-1893
Subjects: Botany Grasses
Publisher: London, Society for promoting Christian knowledge
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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. Rare, nearsprings on the Scottish mountains, where it attains theheight of a foot or more, flowering in June. (PI. 246, f. 1.) ** Stigmas 3; fruit smooth; fertile spikelets short, sessile,or nearly so. 33. C. pallesce/is (Pale Sedge).—Fertile spikelets ob-long, the lowest stalked, slightly pendulous ; bracts leafy,slightly sheathing at the base; fruit obovate, obtuse,tipped by the base of the withered style. A slenderspecies, a foot or more high, well marked by its palehue, and blunt fruit. Common in marshes, and flower-ing in June. (PI. 246, f. 2.) 34. C. exteusa (Long-bracteated Sedge). — Fertilespikelets roundish, oblong; glumes terminating in a sharppoint; bracts very long, leafy; fruit beaked ; leaves verynarrow. Marshes near the sea, rare. Devonshire, nearLiverpool, and Ireland. (PI. 246, f. o.) *** Stigmas ^, fruit smooth; fertile spikelets stalked, erect. 35. C. fldva (Yellow Sedge).—Bracts very long, leaf-like, sheathing the stalks of the fertile spikelets, and giving
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Id.S.SKT C.MtK.XCli ■•1HUA(TKAll:l) BRITISH GRASSES AND SEDGES. 35 tlium the appearance of being sessile; fertile spikeletsdistant; fr/if swollen, spreading, with a long recurvedbeak. Counnon in turfy bogs. A slender leafy speciesof a pale yellowish green hue, growing a foot high, andflowering in May and June. (PI. 246, f. 4.) 3G. C. fiUva (Tawny Sedge).—Fertile spikelets 1—3,oblong, ovate; bracts leafy, sheathing, not overtoppingthe barren spikelets; glumes acute; fruit erect, with astraight rough-edged beak; stem rough. A slenderplant about a foot high, not unfrequent in boggy places,marked by its leafy stem, by the long sheath whichaccompanies the lower bract, and by its short spikelets.It flowers in June. (Pi. 246, f. 5.) 37. C. distans (Loose Sedge).—Fertile spikelets 2—3,distant, oblong; bracts leafy, shining, not overtoppingthe barren spike; flumes terminating in a sudden sharppoint; fruit equally ribbed on both sides, triangular,beaked. (PI. 246, f. 6.) 38. C. bine

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  • bookid:britishgrassesse00prat
  • bookyear:1858
  • bookdecade:1850
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Pratt__Anne__1806_1893
  • booksubject:Botany
  • booksubject:Grasses
  • bookpublisher:London__Society_for_promoting_Christian_knowledge
  • bookcontributor:University_of_British_Columbia_Library
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