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CYPERACEM. 



[CHAP. 



tical, stipulate leaves, and pedunculate spikes of minute, 

 greenish, hermaphrodite flowers. 



Obskrve the seeds, like those of most Monocotyledons 

 of aquatic habit, destitute of albumen. 



GLUMIFERiE. 



115. Natural Order, Cyperacece. — The Sedge Family. 



Grass-like herbs. Sheaths of leaves not split. Scale 

 next the flower with a median nerve. 



Type — Cyperus Iria (or any other species of Cyperus). 



A grass-like plant, one to two feet high, with an angular, 

 sohd stem, closed leaf-sheaths, and irregularly umbellate, 

 distichous spikelets of hermaphrodite flowers singly borne 

 in the axils of imbricating glumes. 



Fig. ai6. Flower of Cyptrus with 

 subtending glume ; enlarged. 



Fig. 217. Male flower of Carcjc 



