CLASSIFICATION OF ANGIOSPERMS, 



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FIG. 257. Carex lurida, one of the Sedge family (Cyperacece), found throughout the 

 summer in swamps and wet meadows in the eastern and central United States. It is a 

 perennial grass-like herb with triangular culms, 3-ranked leaves, and with 2 to 4 spikes of 

 flowers. The genus is a vast one of more than a thousand species, widely distributed and 

 most abundant in the temperate zones. After Troth. 



ble those of pop-corn, but the starch grains in the other cells are 

 more or less rounded or slightly polygonal, and vary from 5 to 25 /x. 

 in diameter; the central rarefied area is either wanting or usually 

 not more than 2 /x in diameter. 



(3) Zea Mays saccharata yields the SUGAR CORNS. While .the 



