Sedge Buster Lesson 6 Carex perdentata
Hello boys and girls. It's the LDR. And I, the LDR shall delay this episode of Sedge Buster for a brief nonce, because I can. For I shall spell to you, the hard-working Druidry of the CB laboratory and any of the Druidry in these parts that happen to be tuned in, on the subtopic,
This is the LDR, signing off for the Druid News Service.
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Whoa! Jeez Louise! Tripartite Naked Orphans! Red-Headed Step Chile! Oh My Goodness Gracious!
Er. Snuffle. Ere ye done Rayetta?
What do ye think. Ray? Didn't ye hear me sign off?
Well Rayetta I, Crumby was also wonderin' when ye would get to the part about us bein' opposed to the country bein' bought and sold like some old whore of Babylon.
Don't be so old fashioned Crumby. The times are indeed, changing. And stop making sexist spells or I will pull one of yer ears off.
Ye do, and I will most certainly spell to Red that ye have become a, a, a........ a dang crazy person.
Ha! Had ye goin', didn't I Crumby! See Mr. Smarty Pants! Yer not the only one in these parts that knows how to spell satire. Now whut's the sedge lesson.
Whew!
Goodness gracious Rayetta. I have never seen you like that. You were just like, uh,...... Mary Matalin or perchance like unto one of the somewhat prettier of the Kinglet's Spokes Ladies.
Why thank you Hope. I certainly intended to scare what passes for wits out of you all. For if we do not get shut of the Kinglet and His Mindless Minions, all spells in this land will have such a flavor. Now whut's that sedge.
Whew! Er. It's that perdentata one, plus I have an extra treat fer everyone on account of I have a picture of my lenin tester, too.
Well ye boys just load on up then.
All righty then.
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Sedge Buster Lesson 6
Somewhere nearby, probably off to the east, is a picture of my linen tester that I love very much. Here it is in its prone postion serving as a paper weight, a peryginia corral and a measurin' device all at the same time. Then it also has a 5x magnifyin' glass (not in use in the picture), and it can be bent up too. Fer it has hinges, and then it looks like a tiny microscope or end table. I love my little linen tester soooooooo much. But I would like to have a 10x one, too.
Then this second picture shows a bunch of sedge peryginias mixed together. The shorter, fatter ones are C. leavenworthii and the longer, slightly skinnier ones are C. perdentata. The perdentatas are also brown, but that's not always the case. The differences in peryginia size and shape is the best way to tell these two kinds apart. One more interesting thing here. These particular C. leavenworthiis are almost toothless on their peryginial beaks. That's not always the case. In addition, both these specimens come from Travis County in north Austin, the Parmer Lane vicinity.
Whew! Dang ye Rayetta!
Should the Kinglet sell our American ports to a corporation owned, perhaps, by the United Arab Emirates, which I believe is a country, or conglomeration of sheikdoms, or something similar to a conglomeration of sheikdoms, whatever that implies?Easy that, yes we should, unequivicably. The Royal Emirs of the United Arab Emirates are our friends in the global economy and have been doing business with Our Very Own Kinglet and Our Royal Family for many, many moons. Most, if not all of the Royal Emirs play golf. Most, no, no, I firmly daresay all of them, own nice suits and drive nice automobiles and have large nice families, nice houses and plenty of money. They are, in short very much like Our Kinglet and all His Ministers and even like unto a Subset of His Most Elite Servitor Confidantes. They are, in short, the same difference as the people already running Our Country. Fellow and Lady Druids, Tabby Labbers, and verily also ye ignorant and vulgar, we have embraced the World Global Economy and now it is time to also, metaphorically perhaps, embrace the rich and powerful friends of Our Kinglet. We shall embrace them, and kiss their fingers and wash their feet with ointment and wipe the ointment off their feet with our hair. Then they, because they are compassionate, will show us mercy and, trickle down.
This is the LDR, signing off for the Druid News Service.
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Whoa! Jeez Louise! Tripartite Naked Orphans! Red-Headed Step Chile! Oh My Goodness Gracious!
Er. Snuffle. Ere ye done Rayetta?
What do ye think. Ray? Didn't ye hear me sign off?
Well Rayetta I, Crumby was also wonderin' when ye would get to the part about us bein' opposed to the country bein' bought and sold like some old whore of Babylon.
Don't be so old fashioned Crumby. The times are indeed, changing. And stop making sexist spells or I will pull one of yer ears off.
Ye do, and I will most certainly spell to Red that ye have become a, a, a........ a dang crazy person.
Ha! Had ye goin', didn't I Crumby! See Mr. Smarty Pants! Yer not the only one in these parts that knows how to spell satire. Now whut's the sedge lesson.
Whew!
Goodness gracious Rayetta. I have never seen you like that. You were just like, uh,...... Mary Matalin or perchance like unto one of the somewhat prettier of the Kinglet's Spokes Ladies.
Why thank you Hope. I certainly intended to scare what passes for wits out of you all. For if we do not get shut of the Kinglet and His Mindless Minions, all spells in this land will have such a flavor. Now whut's that sedge.
Whew! Er. It's that perdentata one, plus I have an extra treat fer everyone on account of I have a picture of my lenin tester, too.
Well ye boys just load on up then.
All righty then.
_____
Sedge Buster Lesson 6
Somewhere nearby, probably off to the east, is a picture of my linen tester that I love very much. Here it is in its prone postion serving as a paper weight, a peryginia corral and a measurin' device all at the same time. Then it also has a 5x magnifyin' glass (not in use in the picture), and it can be bent up too. Fer it has hinges, and then it looks like a tiny microscope or end table. I love my little linen tester soooooooo much. But I would like to have a 10x one, too. 
Then this second picture shows a bunch of sedge peryginias mixed together. The shorter, fatter ones are C. leavenworthii and the longer, slightly skinnier ones are C. perdentata. The perdentatas are also brown, but that's not always the case. The differences in peryginia size and shape is the best way to tell these two kinds apart. One more interesting thing here. These particular C. leavenworthiis are almost toothless on their peryginial beaks. That's not always the case. In addition, both these specimens come from Travis County in north Austin, the Parmer Lane vicinity.Whew! Dang ye Rayetta!
posted by ray pistrum at Tuesday, February 21, 2006
3 Comments:
I am begining to re-sharpen my wits as it about sedge time. I would like to make the pilgrimages to sites of them to collect some live specimens. This helps for the uptake into the grey matter and I need to try more types that grow in upland situtations which especially the those of the section Phaestoglochin
this here is a short bit on retroflex vs. texensis which can be a tricky wicket
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4060/is_200309/ai_n9294197
more caric lore
is this really crazy sedge?
Yamanaka, T. (1996). (Miscellaneous notes on Carex insaniae.) J. Jap. Bot. 71(1): 52-53. (Jap.)
Ha! There may be a few sheets around here that could be re-labeled as C. stupidianus, since nobody knows wht they are.
I have never seen C. texensis in the wild. Yep, in a few weeks we need to do some outdoors sedge bustin.
We are fixin' to include C. retroflexa in the next lesson. As you will see, it's an easy one in these parts. However, things start to fall apart on it once ye get up into northern Oklahomy.
yep there seem to be a lot of heliophytes among the Phystochochins. C. leavenworthii is certainly one of those. I think it is eequivalent to C. perdentata with a more northerly distribution, but considerable overlap.
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