216 POPULAR FLORA. 
common genera, each with several species: the parts are too small and difficult for the 
young student. 
Pod 1-celled and 8-seeded. Leaves flat and hairy, (Laizula) Woop-Rusn. 
Pod 8-celled, many-seeded. Leaves generally thread-shaped, or none at all, (Juncus) Rusu. 
104. SEDGE FAMILY. Order CYPERACEA. 
A large family of Rush-like or Grass-like plants, including the Sepces, CLUBRUSHES, 
BurrvusueEs, and the like, which have no perianth, but the flowers, collected in heads or 
spikes, are each in the axil of'a single glume in the form of a chaff or scale. These plants 
are much too difficult for the young beginner. 
105. GRASS FAMILY. Order GRAMINEZ. 
The true Grasses make a large and most important family of plants, with straw stems 
(called culms, 91) ; leaves with open sheaths; and flowers with 2-ranked glumes or chaffy 
scales, a pair to each flower, and another pair to each spikelet. It includes not only the 
very numerous kinds of true Grasses, but also of Corn, i. e. the Cereal grains, of which 
Wueat, Bartey, Ryez, Oats, Rice, and Maize or Inp1an-Corn are the principal; 
also SuGAR-CANE, BRoom-Corn or GuinEA-Corn, and MILLET. 
SERIES II. 
FLOWERLESS OR CRYPTOGAMOUS PLANTS. 
Plants destitute of flowers, and propagated by spores instead of seeds. See 
Part I., Paragr. 165, 808, 312 -314. 
CLASS III. — ACROGENS. 
This class includes the Ferws, the HorsEtaltzs, and the CLus-Mosszs. 
CLASS IV.— ANOPHYTES. 
This class includes the Mossgs and the Liverworts. 
CLASS V.—THALLOPHYTES. 
Includes the LicHEns, the ALG or SEAWEEDS, and the Func1 or MusHrooms. 
