This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...Plate MDCXXI. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIII. Tab. CCXXII. Fig. 573. Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 678. Rootstock densely caespitose, growing in large tufts, without elongate stolons. Stems slender, wiry, trigonous, rough in the upper part. Leaves as long as the stem, narrowly linear, channelled, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...Plate MDCXXI. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIII. Tab. CCXXII. Fig. 573. Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 678. Rootstock densely caespitose, growing in large tufts, without elongate stolons. Stems slender, wiry, trigonous, rough in the upper part. Leaves as long as the stem, narrowly linear, channelled, rough on the edges, green, not glaucous. Spikes usually slightly decompound, rarely greatly compound, ovoid or fusiform, continuous or interrupted below, with a bract at the base having a short setaceous herbaceous point usually much shorter than the lowest spikelet. Spikelets 5 to 8, fusiform or cylindrical, usually slightly compound towards the base, only the lowest spikelet with a short herbaceous bract, all of them male at the apex and female below. Glumes of the female flowers ovate, acuminate, reddish-brown with narrow pale margins, about as long as the fruit. Fruit chestnut-brown, green on the margins towards the apex, paler on the beak, shortly stipitate, ovate-truncate at the base, greatly swollen on the back, where there are 7 to 9 short ribs, slightly convex on the face, where there are 5 to 7 short ribs, rather abruptly acuminated into a flattened 2-toothed beak, as long as the rest of the fruit and serrulate on the margins, but not winged. Styles slightly thickened towards the base; stigmas 2. Nut brown, rhomboidal-ovoid, doubly convex. In wet bogs. Very local. At Hoveton, Norfolk; and in Yorkshire, where it is plentiful in Askham bogs and in a carr between Healaugh and Askham Richard. In Ireland it is plentiful in the boggy wood at Ladiston, on the shore of Belvedere Lake, near Mullingar, co. Westmeath. England, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. Much more densely tufted than C. teretiuscula, and with more numerous black sheaths at the base...
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