Excerpt from The North American Species of Spartina A stout erect perennial 6 to 18 dm. High with unbran'ched glabrous culms from stout, scaly rootstocks, long tough leaf-blades and 5 to 20 spikes, forming a terminal panicle. Sheaths crowded below; ligule a ring of hairs; leaf-blades 3 to 12 or 18 dm. Long, 4 to 14 mm. Wide, scabrous on the margins, becoming involute in drying, attenuate into a long Slender tip. Spikes 5 to 10 cm. Long, often on peduncles, 1 to 2 cm. In length, ascending, racemose along the main axis, which is scabrous on the margins, as are also the secondary axes. Spikelets densely imbricate, 12 to 14 mm. Long; empty glumes unequal, strongly aculeolate-scabrous on the rigid keels, the first usually acute, the second long acuminate and more or less awned; flowering glume 7 to 9 mm. Long, glabrous, except for the aculeo late-scabrous midnerve which terminates just below the emarginate or 2-toothed apex. Palea thinner in texture and usually somewhat exceeding the glume. 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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Excerpt from The American Species of Marchantia N 0 other liverwort has been so much discussed and described as M archantia polymorpha. According to Lindberg1 it attracted the attention of naturalists at a very early date and was known to both Aristotle and Theophrastus. Within more recent times it has repeatedly been the subject of morphological researches and has served in numerous text books as a typical representa tive of the thallose Hepaticae. Over eighty years ago Mirbel2 published the first extensive account of its morphology. He brought out the essential features of the thallus and of its various tissues and gave a clear description of the receptacles and the gemmae. Of the later works dealing with the morphology of the species those by Leitgeb,3 Kny,4 Ikeno,5 and Durand6 may be particularly mentioned. The first two deal with the plant in a general way, very much as Mirbel's memoir did, although they include many original observations. The last two are much more specialized and deal with the cytology and development of the reproductive organs. Although M. Polymorpha itself has been treated so exhaustively the other species of the genus have been but little studied by morphologists. In one of his earlier papers Schiffner7 published a series of interesting observations on the Javan M. Geminata R. B1. N.; but aside from this. 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.