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BULRUSH , a name now generally given to Typha latifolia, the See also:reed-See also:mace or See also:club-See also:rush, a plant growing in lakes, by edges of See also:rivers and similar localities, with a creeping underground See also:stem, narrow, nearly See also:flat leaves, 3 to 6 ft. See also:long, arranged in opposite rows, and a tall stem ending in a cylindrical spike, See also:half to one See also:foot long, of closely packed male(above) and See also:female (below) See also:flowers. The See also:familiar See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown spike is a dense See also:mass of See also:minute one-seeded fruits, each on a long See also:hair-like stalk and covered with long downy hairs, which render the fruits very See also:light and readily carried by the See also:wind. The name bulrush is more correctly applied to Scirpus lacustris, a member of a different See also:family (See also:Cyperaceae), a See also:common plant in wet places, with tall spongy, usually leafless stems, bearing a tuft of many-flowered spikelets. The stems are used for See also:matting, &c. The bulrush of Scripture, associated with the hiding of See also:Moses, was the See also:Papyrus (q.v.), also a member of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order Cyperaceae, which was abundant in the See also:Nile.
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