Identifier: rockymou00clem (
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Rocky Mountain flowers : an illustrated guide for plant-lovers and plant-usersYear:
1920 (
1920s)Authors:
Clements, Frederic E. (Frederic Edward), 1874-1945 Clements, Edith S. (Edith Schwartz)Subjects:
Wild flowersPublisher:
New York : H. W. WilsonContributing Library:
The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical GardenDigitizing Sponsor:
Metropolitan New York Library Council - METROView Book Page:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:concave, erect,embracing the column and often adhering to it, spreading and wavy, ortoothed at the apex, column arched below, stigma ovate, extending into apointed beak, pollinia 2; flowers white, spurless, spirally twisted in a 1-3- 3ZZ Plate 44 ARROWHEADS—SEDGES PONDWEED FAMILY 1. Potamogeton pectinatus: Pondweed ARROWHEAD FAMILY 2. Sagittaria arifolia: Arrowhead ARROWGRASS FAMILY 3. Triglochin maritima: Arrow Grass BUR-REED FAMILY 4. Sparganium simplex: Bur-reed DUCKWEED FAMILY 5- Lemma trisulca: Duckweed 6. Lemna minor LILY FAMILY 7. Veratrum viride: False Hellebore 8. Leucocrinum montanum: Sand Lily 9. Lloydia serotina 10. Wagnera stellata: Spikenard, Solomons Seal 11. Streptopus amplexifolius : Twisted Stalk RUSH FAMILY 12. Juncus balticus: Rush 13. Juncus longistylis SEDGE FAMILY 14. Eriophorum polystachyum: Cotton Grass 15. Cyperus inflexus : Galingale 16. Scirpus pauciflorus: Dwarf Rush 17. Scirpus lacustris: Bulrush 18. Heleocharis palustris: Spike Rush 19. Elvna BellardiText Appearing After Image:324 GRASS ORDER rowed spike; leaves alternate, linear to lanceolate; perennial herb with fleshy or tuberous roots. Stems 4-15 in. high; leaves linear or linear-oblance-olate, 2-8 in. long; flowers 6-8 mm. long, white orgreenish-white, fragrant 5. stricta POALES GRASS ORDERCYPERACEAE SEDGE FAMILY Sepals and petals none or represented by bristles or scales, stamens 1-3,ovary 1-celled, style 2-3-cleft, fruit an achene; flowers perfect or staminateand pistillate, arranged in small dense clusters or spikelets, 1 or rarely 2 inthe axil of each bract or glume; spikelets solitary or clustered, 1-many-flow-ered ; leaves narrow with closed sheaths; grass-like or rush-like herbs, withusually solid, triangular, cylindric or flattened stems. 1. Flowers perfect, i. e., stamens and pistil in the axil of each scale a. Spikelets flattened, with the scales in 2 rows; perianth bristles wanting Cyperus b. Spikelets not flattened; scales roundish, im- bricated all around; perianth bristles usu-ally presenNote About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.