KEY TO PLATE LIX 



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I. Green-ribbed Sedge 



"^{parex biturvis, Sm.) 



a,^ Ml^e flo\*<hr, with 3 stamei)s (trian- ' 

 drous) and fetunte. b. Glume of pistillate / 

 flower, 3-nervedX c, PctJgynium, withy 

 cuspidate beak, anfl 3 stigmas, and nut \Bj 

 th'e right d, Spikelel, pfetillate. with 

 .stigmas ripej e. Flowering stem, with 

 iODg brart^ ind axillary spiketets, upper- 

 most maleu ^ / Kootstock, with roots, 

 sh^ths, barren shoots, and alternate 

 leaves, sheathed below. 



No. 2. Small Bent Grass 



j {Agrostis canina, L,) 



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 a. Flower, with outer glti'me^ flowering 



glume awTied, excuWent^ikWn Stom above 



the base, pales, and wjthlii ,3 stamens 



and pistil (last hardly seeti). H, Flower, 



with palea; stamens, and pistil witii 



feathery stigmas, a:nid ' flowering glume, 



shawing awn attached above the middle. 



^ Stoloniferous stem and shoots, with 



roiptstock and roots. </, Stem, with upper 



stem-leaf showing sheath, and panicles 



^^^ibaoded u& tifkitit (contracted in fruit). 



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Ti No, 3, Hje^.Hair SrasV ' 

 ■if>ei0hmpsit» jUruosa, TrilbV 



VW'^O'^er, s?i|yj^ft^fea, awned floweringN''^'^ 

 glume; 3 stair>en»^j,an3 (eath^ry -stigmas. -;, 

 b, Flowi^r, showing outeri^«|nip(y glumes, 

 flowering fflutne, ; j>*j^;\y»t^^ns, and 

 scales. ivqfeary,'w<tK2-,fea»heiy stigmas. 

 *,;',Rootstoclk w!ti, >CK>)r^>^ with tufted 

 !eaV«i}, barri^n .shoj^ts, - e. Flowering stem, 

 •witTn. Iftef, ijacd /j^icle with; ' 2-3-iiate 



NW-4. Mat Grkss 



{ff$du5 strUtkh.) 



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rt^^t lower, witW'kwned flowering gltime, 



^^, with 3 stamens. M Leaf margin, 



d^l^ipelled, rouglii enlarged, r, i^pike, 



BHiiatera^, with irfloWei^d s|iikelets, 



X pla&yd obliqueiir. } % ff^lint, wjjdi roof 



storilfl, tuftkl, ^^tlied below, *ith long 



setaclfcoils leaves, and flotfers in spikes, 



