FLOWE1 



KEY TO PLATE L1X 



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No\i. Green-ribbed Sedge 

 \ \ ^jfrqrex binervis, Sni.) 



a. M^le flow^, with 3 stamens (trian- 

 drous) and glun^e, , Glume of pistillate / 

 flower, 2-nerved.\ t, Perig|ynium, with 

 cuspidate beak, and 3 stigmas, and nut to 

 the right. d, Spikelet, (pistillate, wkh 

 stigmas ripe, e, Flowering stem, with 

 ^ng bract&| and axillary spfkelets, ^pper- 

 mb maletU/ RootstodLiwitX/ roots, 

 sheaths, barten shoots, / (foil //dternate 





No. 2. Small Bent Grass 

 (Agrostis cattina. I*), 





a, Flower, with outer glume, flowermg 

 glume awued, excurrent awn from above 

 the base, palea, and within 3 stamens 

 and pistil (last hardly seen), b, Flower, 

 with palea, stamens, and pistil with 

 feathery stigmas, and flowering glume, 

 showing awn attached above the middle. 

 c, Stoloniferous stem and shoots, with 

 rootstock and ibets. X-Stem, with upper 

 stem-leaf shewing sheath, and panicles 

 expanded in flowef (contracted in fruit). 



, Flower, showing- paiea, a-.vned flowering \ 

 glume, 3 sta/T!en v arid feath.ery stigmas. 

 , Flower, showing outer 'etnpty glumes, C 

 flowering gjlam^- pal'e^'/^i^o^ns, and 

 scales. ^ CK-a: v r , with i ja|hery stigmas. 

 ff t Rootstock with root^^&l Mth tufted 

 leaves, barren shoots/*?, Flowejijing stem, 

 with l 



Mat Grass 

 'us stricta, L.) 



wned fWwerii^ 

 _ mens. tyl Leaf margin, 

 , royjgh, enlaVgc^i. <:, .Spike, 

 ral, with ijtflow^ed s^ikelets, 



. . r, Plant, with root- 

 Mi s&^thed bcjow, with long 

 leay> T arid flowers in spikes, ,/ 



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?n-.riblieil Sedge (i 



