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ORDER XXX11. RESTlACr .1 ■.- . 



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lied anthers, 



Herbaceous plants or under-ahrubs. Leaves simple, i I 



or more usually protected by sheaths, which are slit, and havi equitai I I 



generally -• parated bj i 



sexual. Glum seldom wanting. Stamens 2 to 3, attach 



opposite the innermost ; anthers usually unilocular and peltate. Ovarj I- oi 



cell monospermous . Btj li - 



fewer than 2, although the ovarj I 

 otherwise equal in number to th<- cells of tin 

 ovules pendulous. Fruit capsular, or uuca 

 rerted ; albtuni n of 1 

 i ; embryo lenticular, on tl Jbu- 



liuii, at that end ed which 



i tin.- hilum. 



ipal chai 

 this order from Rushes an i - 



duloua a ed and lenticular 

 embryo placed at the extremity •!' tl 

 opposite to the umbilicus. From R 

 differs in the order of suppn 

 which, when reduced to 3, are < . j ■ j 

 glumes ; and most of its genera ;. - _ - 

 from both tli - well as from I 



. )<y their simple "r unilocular anthers. 

 . >79.) Hut in truth it is essentially distil e 

 from tin.' order of Rushes bj its glumaci ous 6 

 as well as by the characti i - 

 glumi b are absent, it is then only to b 



- by the pendulous ovules, terminal 



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and by the sheatl - it. 



petaloid flower and polyspermous fruit I \ 

 ''.•' i \' ius formerly referred here, are char 



y ing a far superior deg volution, 



3 i -• parate it as the representath 



i \ xxi der ; a measure which Brown anticipat 



remark . that th( 



though plao >l by him at the end of Restiaci bb, is certainly verj diffi i 

 genera, in tl"- inner » gm< uta of the | • i ianth 1 1 ing | • taloid, with th< - 



■ in the top of their ungues, and in its numerot Pipe* 



t >s their having a membranous aheath 1" tween the glumes and 

 ing au approach to the petaloid < >r lers, i specially to Xyrids. 



All are extra-European, and chiefly found in the woods and mai 

 \ Holland, and southern Afri.a. The) have nol been found in \ 



The tough wiry stems manufactured inl W 



denowia t. n - is < mployed for the latter purpose, and B - 



R 



i urpi s, R Hr 



r\:i. ft. Br. 



'itlius. R. Br 



Ciu-iill'/i /-.' . Ni 

 Dorea, K'h. 



Hypodiscus, S 

 Anthochortus, 



R \. 



PI 





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N i V 



ovaries ; t. the fruit in a si 



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