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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YARD RUSH (Juncus tenuis). Two thirds natural size
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SMALL HKAIiKi) Rl>l\ fjuiuus bracliycephalus). Natural size RUSHES JUNCACEAE Where is this stranger? Rushes, ladies, rushes!Rushes as green as summer for this stranger. The dark-green leaves of rushes, common in lanes, by waysides,and in all marshy places, add their verdure to the green carpetingof the grasses, and indeed are often familiarly comprised underthe all-embracing name of grass. Rushes, however, belong to adistinct family, and, being closely related to the lilies, are essen-tially lily-like in the form of the tiny green blossoms. In song and story we are familiar with poetical allusions tothe gleaming rushes, yet many of the so-called rushes belongto the sedge family, and are far larger than our common Easternspecies of the true rushes and seem to a passing glance fully asrush-like in appearance. While it is true that plants of this genus,(Juncus), resemble both grasses and sedges in colour and tex-ture, the student should have no difficulty in distinguishing them,since

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