10 ELEMENTS OF BOTANY. 
1—-many-flowered spikelets; these are variously grouped in 
spikes, panicles (Figs. 183, 211 A), and so on. The fruit is 
a grain (Fig. 9). 
(The family is too difficult for the beginner, but the struc- 
ture and grouping of the flowers may be gathered from a care- 
ful study of Figs. 210, 211.) 
CYPERACEZA, SEDGE FAMILY. 
Grass-like or rush-like herbs, with solid, usually triangular, 
stems, growing in tufts. The sheathing base of the generally 
3-ranked leaves, when present, 
is not shit as in grasses. The 
flowers are usually somewhat 
less enclosed by bracts than 
those of grasses; the perianth 
is absent or rudimentary ; 
stamens generally 3; style 2- 
cleft or 3-cleft. 
Fic. 210.— Diagram of Inflo- 
rescence of a Grass. 
g, sterile glumes ; P,, a flower- Fic. 211. — Fescue-Grass (festuca 
ing glume; P,, a scaly bract pratensis). 
(palet) : e, transparent scales A, spikelet (compare Fig. 210); B, a 
(odicules) at the base of the - flower, the lodicules in front and the 
flower ; B, the flower. palea behind ; C,a lodicule; D, ovary. 
