438 99. EOTiSBiACEa!. 



less, fl. tumid with fruit. — K B. 2955. — St. erect. Spike slender. 

 Lower pale cartilaginous below, narrower than the upper, tumid 

 in fruit.— Cultivated fields. A. VI. VII.] E. 



t2. L. temulen'tum (L.) ; no barren shoots, spihehts about 6- 

 ilowered equalling or shoo'ter than the gl., lower pale awned, fl. 

 tumidwithfruit.— J?. -B. 1124. P. 142.— St. erect. Ligule short. 

 Upper gl. usually present, often bifid. — a ; awns as long as or 

 longer than the pale. — fi. L. arvense (With.) ; fl. 4 — 5 without 

 or with short awns. JE, S. 1125. — Cultivated fields. A. VI. — 

 VIII. Darnel. E. S. I. 



FLOWERLESS PLANTS. 



Class III. CRYPTOGAMEtE. 



Substance of the plant of cellular tissue or with a feTT 

 ducts. No woody fibre. No true flower with stamens 

 and pistils. No distinct embryo, nor cotyledons. 



A. Plants with a few ducts amongst the cellular tissue. Pro- 

 ducing^ spores which develop into a prothallus which bears 

 antheridia and archegoma^ 



Order XCIX. EQUISETACE-Sl. 



Leafless branched plants with a striate hollow stem ; each 

 joint ending in a sheafli which conceals the joining and encloses 

 the base of the next joint. Sporules surrounded by elastic cla- 

 vate filaments and enclosed in capsules arising from the peltate 

 scales of terminal cones or spikes. — ^Branches whorled. Cuticle 

 abounding in silex. Only one genus. 



■ (-K) refers to Newman's British Ferns, ed. 2 ; (iS.) to Sowerhy's 

 Ferns and Fern allies ; (H. F.) to Hoolcer's British Ferns. Maoris 

 Handbook of British Ferns, ed. 3, may be consulted with much ad- 

 Tantage, and MUde in Nov, Act. Soc. Nat. Cur. vol. xxxii. 



