Grasses : $b A handbook for use in the field and laboratoryWard, H. Marshall (Harry Marshall)
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Grasses : $b A handbook for use in the field and laboratory
Ward, H. Marshall (Harry Marshall)
Grasses
†† _Motor-cells inconspicuous and in two flanking lines, one on
each side of the mid-rib._
_Poa trivialis._ Keel with sclerenchyma at its apex, and a small band
of the same at the margins. Vascular bundles of three orders, isolated,
without girders, but with a small band of sclerenchyma above and below.
Ridges obsolete. Short hook-asperities above. No thickened cuticle.
Other species of Poa also come here: I cannot distinguish them by the
leaf anatomy; but _P. annua_, _P. compressa_, _P. nemoralis_ and
_P. pratensis_ are devoid of the hooked asperities; _P. nemoralis_
has a thicker lamina than the rest, and girders to the secondary
bundles. _P. annua_ agrees in the latter point.
** _Leaf not keeled: rolling up. Motor-cells distributed
between the ridges._
† _Hairs none or rare, or at most a few asperities._
≡ _Veins numerous, 30-40 on each half lamina. Motor-cells very
large._
⊙ _All vascular bundles with girders above and below._
_Digraphis arundinacea._ No keel. Marginal sclerenchyma conspicuous.
A few asperities below. Leaf thin, and all the bundles joined to
the epidermis above and below by girders (Fig. 14). Stomata on both
surfaces, fairly large: epidermal cells with plane walls. There may be
a few irregular air cavities, especially near the mid-rib.
⊙⊙ _Only the principal bundles girdered._
_Arundo Phragmites._ Ridges very numerous and low. No keel. Marginal
sclerenchyma strong. Vascular bundles with sheaths of large colourless
cells, a few of the strongest girdered below, but most have only
sclerenchyma bands above and below. Motor-cells particularly large,
between all the bundles. There are no conspicuous lacunæ. Hairs very
rare. Epidermal cells small, with sinuous walls: all the cell-walls
contain silica. Stomata on both faces, sunk, small and more difficult
to see than in _Digraphis_, where the epidermal cells are plane walled,
or nearly so.
_Arundo Donax_ is very like _A. Phragmites_, but has larger bundles
each with a horse-shoe shaped sclerenchymatous mass below, and larger
lacunæ.
≡≡ _Veins not more than 10-20 in each half lamina._
⊙ _More or less conspicuously hairy. The smaller bundles
isolated and devoid of girders._
_Bromus sterilis._ Girders to the stronger bundles only. Stiff hairs
above and below. Motor-cells poorly developed between each pair of low
ridges. No pronounced cuticle. A faint sclerenchyma-band at margin, and
at apex of low rounded keel. Stomata on both faces.
_Bromus arvensis._ Similar to _B. sterilis_, with stiff hairs commoner
below. Harsh in cutting.
_B. giganteus_ shows no hairs, but I cannot distinguish the Bromes
generally by the leaf anatomy.
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