SEDGE BUSTER
Hey ho, Crumby O.
Well now Ray. Aint ye chipper.
Yepper. I, Ray be plenty chipper fer the nonce, all righty then.
What we got here in the venue since yesterday?
Oh my goodness, there might be a thing er two. Ye might want to check upon the most recent and apparent spurge du jour, Crumby O, my bosom buddy.
Er. Er. Er. Did ye run this un through the spurge buster gamut, Ray?
Noper. That all come to me in a vision Crumby. The Goddess Herself says to me, Ray, that particular sprurge there that Crumby couldn’t figure out back in the dim past is now revealed to thee, Ray the Sweet and Smart Druid, as Chamaesyce fendleri.
Dang it Ray! Ye be aggravatin’ me severely. Did ye key it or not?
Mebbe, mebbe not.
All righty then. Mebbe, the LDR can just run a truth test on ye regardin’ the veracity of yer account. I reckon the LDR can swiftly ascertain whether me bosom companion is in direct communication with the WG on the subtopic spurge identification, er not.
Ha! The Goddess also told me that I was exempt from testin’ by my sister on account of Rayetta is too mean to test me because I am so sweet. The WG said it was a balance issue.
All righty then, sweetie. I, The Crumby Ovate, be runnin’ this through the spurge buster gamut, and if it aint what ye say it be, then we shall be forced to get up a heretic trial where ye shall find yerself a standin’ tall afore Badgemagus.
Oh my goodness Crumby. I shall be soooooo scared. I shall verily be very scared indeed. So scared, all righty then, that I might just spell everthin’ I know on the subtopic, grab baggin’.
Er. Er. Er. All righty then. Let’s ferget the heretic trial fer the nonce. Did ye pull the Phaestoglochin sheets?
Yepper, though my poor little hands was near froze off by that terrible ordeal, I, Ray though chilled far colder than any of the little witches’ teats ever, persevered and pulled a sheet.
Ye pulled one sheet?
Yepper, and what a dreadful ordeal that was.
All righty then. Which one did ye pull?
Ye Crumby, have it spelled as Carex austrina.
Umh hmmh. And did the Goddess talk with ye about this particular sedge also?
Yepper, but She told me to keep Her Words a Secret.
Jeez Louise! Ray, ye are a well known tribulation. Give it here now, fer I shall run it through the gamut yet once more and then we can load er up.
All righty then.
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Harrrrruuuuuuuuh!
It’s time fer the first installment of SEDGE BUSTER brought to ye by RGVECB and a Subset of the Druidry in these parts.
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Lesson 1
The sedges are a mighty big bunch of little wonders, all righty then, Praise the Goddess. There are a great many of them, indeed, all socked by the taxonomists into the whopping great Family Cyperaceace. But the Druid sedge busters of these parts, have randomly chosen the whopping big genus Carex, a subset of the Cyperaceae to start off what promises to be a fairly lengthy subtopic. For sedges are not only many, but troubling as well. So we undertake this task to spell the sedge busters of the future to the extent that there is a future with sedge busters in it. Also, Carex is a good place to start because they are fixing to flower in these parts if we ever get enough rain.
With sedges ye have to learn a good many spells before ye can carry on about them. So the very first thing we are going to do, fer ye, is put up a picture er two, that spells the various parts. Here somewhere be the first un.
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Crumby. You are spelling in Druidese. Spell in English like a good lad.
Aw shucks. All righty then, Arkdruid.
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This picture is of a terminal spike, a group of flowers at the very tip top of this caric sedge which we think is Carex austrina. Generally, there are a bunch of lateral spikes below this terminal one. There are a whole bunch of flowers in this spike, spirally arranged. At the very tip top there are some male flowers. The rest of the flowers below the male ones are all female. That makes this spike, bisexual, and also it is spelled androgynous when the male flowers are at the tip top and the female ones are down below. Other parts identified in this introductory lesson are the pistillate (female flower) scale that covers one side of the female fruit peryginia. Also note that the female flowers have two stigmas, not three. This is charactereistic of caric sedges that have flat peryginia as we shall certainly see in the upcoming Lesson 2.
Well now Ray. Aint ye chipper.
Yepper. I, Ray be plenty chipper fer the nonce, all righty then.
What we got here in the venue since yesterday?
Oh my goodness, there might be a thing er two. Ye might want to check upon the most recent and apparent spurge du jour, Crumby O, my bosom buddy.
Er. Er. Er. Did ye run this un through the spurge buster gamut, Ray?
Noper. That all come to me in a vision Crumby. The Goddess Herself says to me, Ray, that particular sprurge there that Crumby couldn’t figure out back in the dim past is now revealed to thee, Ray the Sweet and Smart Druid, as Chamaesyce fendleri.
Dang it Ray! Ye be aggravatin’ me severely. Did ye key it or not?
Mebbe, mebbe not.
All righty then. Mebbe, the LDR can just run a truth test on ye regardin’ the veracity of yer account. I reckon the LDR can swiftly ascertain whether me bosom companion is in direct communication with the WG on the subtopic spurge identification, er not.
Ha! The Goddess also told me that I was exempt from testin’ by my sister on account of Rayetta is too mean to test me because I am so sweet. The WG said it was a balance issue.
All righty then, sweetie. I, The Crumby Ovate, be runnin’ this through the spurge buster gamut, and if it aint what ye say it be, then we shall be forced to get up a heretic trial where ye shall find yerself a standin’ tall afore Badgemagus.
Oh my goodness Crumby. I shall be soooooo scared. I shall verily be very scared indeed. So scared, all righty then, that I might just spell everthin’ I know on the subtopic, grab baggin’.
Er. Er. Er. All righty then. Let’s ferget the heretic trial fer the nonce. Did ye pull the Phaestoglochin sheets?
Yepper, though my poor little hands was near froze off by that terrible ordeal, I, Ray though chilled far colder than any of the little witches’ teats ever, persevered and pulled a sheet.
Ye pulled one sheet?
Yepper, and what a dreadful ordeal that was.
All righty then. Which one did ye pull?
Ye Crumby, have it spelled as Carex austrina.
Umh hmmh. And did the Goddess talk with ye about this particular sedge also?
Yepper, but She told me to keep Her Words a Secret.
Jeez Louise! Ray, ye are a well known tribulation. Give it here now, fer I shall run it through the gamut yet once more and then we can load er up.
All righty then.
_____
Harrrrruuuuuuuuh!
It’s time fer the first installment of SEDGE BUSTER brought to ye by RGVECB and a Subset of the Druidry in these parts.
_____
Lesson 1
The sedges are a mighty big bunch of little wonders, all righty then, Praise the Goddess. There are a great many of them, indeed, all socked by the taxonomists into the whopping great Family Cyperaceace. But the Druid sedge busters of these parts, have randomly chosen the whopping big genus Carex, a subset of the Cyperaceae to start off what promises to be a fairly lengthy subtopic. For sedges are not only many, but troubling as well. So we undertake this task to spell the sedge busters of the future to the extent that there is a future with sedge busters in it. Also, Carex is a good place to start because they are fixing to flower in these parts if we ever get enough rain.
With sedges ye have to learn a good many spells before ye can carry on about them. So the very first thing we are going to do, fer ye, is put up a picture er two, that spells the various parts. Here somewhere be the first un.
_____
Crumby. You are spelling in Druidese. Spell in English like a good lad.
Aw shucks. All righty then, Arkdruid.
_____
This picture is of a terminal spike, a group of flowers at the very tip top of this caric sedge which we think is Carex austrina. Generally, there are a bunch of lateral spikes below this terminal one. There are a whole bunch of flowers in this spike, spirally arranged. At the very tip top there are some male flowers. The rest of the flowers below the male ones are all female. That makes this spike, bisexual, and also it is spelled androgynous when the male flowers are at the tip top and the female ones are down below. Other parts identified in this introductory lesson are the pistillate (female flower) scale that covers one side of the female fruit peryginia. Also note that the female flowers have two stigmas, not three. This is charactereistic of caric sedges that have flat peryginia as we shall certainly see in the upcoming Lesson 2.
posted by ray pistrum at Monday, February 13, 2006
1 Comments:
this here is a good picture. That pistillate scale is very distinct. The awn like appendage is exactly equal to the length of the scale body.
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