PAMTICULAM TYPES OF FLOWEBS (SEDGES) 231 



in Fig. 220. The entire flower-cluster is a compound 

 spike. Two of the spikelets are subtended by 

 bracts, h h. If the staminate portion of the spike- 

 lets were examined, two bare stamens would be 

 seen arising from behind a scale (Fig. 221). The 

 pistillate flower (Fig. 222) has two styles which 



FlQ. 222. 



Pistillate flowers 

 of carex. 



project from a flask-like body, and this body, like 

 the staminate flower, is borne in the axU of a 

 bract. Where is the perianth ? 



265. A sedge of the type shown in Fig. 165 

 would ripen into a form something like that in 

 Fig. 223. (The two are not the same kind, how- 

 ever.) Leaf- like bracts subtend each spike. A 

 pistillate flower of Fig. 223 is enlarged in Fig. 

 224. It is in the axU of a scale. The side of 

 the flask-like body is torn away, and the 3-an- 



