Sedge Buster Lesson 11 - My Style Is, Continuous

OK Ray. Jeez Louise. I caint be two places at once. I know I should have hepped ye get this un up a while back. Jeez Louise stop yer belly achin'. It aint like I been lollygaggin. Go see Rayetta. She's been callin' faintly fer ye. All righty then.

Dern. Now let's see here. Oooooooooooh. That moon is sooooooo cool tonight. Ah, the lure of the stars. But now its time fer Sedge Buster.

Ha! This is a great bunch of sedges. Every one of them has Style, that is a continuous style that stays attached to the achene. The picture yonder is indicative. This happens to be a three-sided) trigonous achene of Carex hyalinolepis. See the curlycue style. It stays on the achene instead of withering away. It's also made of the same material as the achene. One might say that achene is stylish.

Now this second picture shows the whole infloresence. The male spikes are on top and the female spikes are lower down. In other words, they are not mixed up together on the same spike like some that we have seen before. This is known as dioecious spikes.

Finally, here's a closeup of part of a pistallate spike. Ye can see the strongly bidentate beaks of the peryginia and the interesting female scales that have lotsa red in them. This picture is near the top of the spike where the scales are squatter and more apiculate than they are down below in the lowere part of the spike.

This one's from Harris County. Likely it is that the collection site is paved over now. Next lesson will be an official Section Lupilinae caric sedge. Although, the lupulines are pretty much the same difference as this one, only lots bigger.
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Well looky here. The LDR is up and at em. Hey Rayetta are ye recovered from yer swoon?

Hello Crumby. Yes, I am feeling much better now after my nice nap.

It's boring out there, aint it Rayetta?

Yepper. Also, I need to get Lomo to take some readings on the oxygen. There seems to be less oxygen these days.