The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges

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Identifier: bookofgrassesill00franuoft (find matches)
Title: The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Francis, Mary Evans, 1876-1941
Subjects: Cyperaceae Grasses -- United States Juncaceae
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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borders of ponds throughout North America. Chair-makers Rush, recognized by its stiff, triangular stems,is found in salt-water marshes and also by inland streams. Thestems, often shoulder-high, bear one to three leaves, and theflowers are borne in one to seven oblong, brown spikelets aboutone half an inch long. Although the cluster of spikelets is term-inal it appears as if it were lateral, since the solitary leaf at thebase of the cluster rises like a continuation of the stem. The Salt-marsh Bulrush (Scirpus robustus) is a striking plantof the genus and is found most frequently near the coasts. Thestout, sharply angled stems are from one to five feet tall and beara dense, compact inflorescence composed of a cluster of five totwenty large, oblong, brownish spikelets, some of which aresessile while others are borne on short rays one to two inches inlength. The Great Bulrush, occasionally nine feet in height, and some-times an inch in diameter at the base, is leafless and stout. The 280
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