Excerpt from The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges,& Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies, the Club Mosses, Horsetails, Etc, Vol. 4 The popular notion of the Rush tribe connects its members with the Grasses through the Sedges. A certain superficial resemblance may justify this, but the botanical tyro who uses the pocket-lens and pulls the inflores cence carefully to pieces will soon be undeceived on that point. The flower of the Wood Rush, though minute, has all its parts corresponding closely with those of the lilies, but in the Sedges and Grasses the perianth has com pletely disappeared, and the stamens and pistils are enclosed in chaffy scales, called glumes. There are three British genera. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain, Vol. 2: And Their Allies the Club Mosses, Horsetails, &C Calyx of 4, sometimes 2 lobes, which in the bud are attached to each other by their edges 3 calyx-tube more or less united to the ovary 3 petals as many as the lobes of the calyx, twisted while in bud, falling early 3 stamens 4 or 8, rarely 2 3 ovary of 2 or 4 cells, often crowned by a disk; style slender 3 stigma knobbed, or 4-lobed3 fruit a berry, or 4-celled capsule. This order consists chie y of herbaceous plants, rarely shrubs, found mostly in the temperate parts of the world. None of the plants contain unwhole some properties, but they contribute little either to medicinal or domestic purposes, though some of the species add largely to the beauty of our gardens. Several of our most common and ornamental owers are included in it, as the Fuchsias, Clarkias, and Evening Primroses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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