Ryegrass Leaf with Sheath

Lolium perenne. A sheath, in botany is “the part of an expanded organ that is rolled around a stem or other body, forming a tube, as in the lower part of the leaves of grasses...” —Whitney, 1889

This illustration show a single leaf of ryegrass in its sheath.

Keywords

grasses, grass, Botany, leaf, leaves, Rye, organ, sheath, Ryegrass, sheaths, plant anatomy, Lolium perenne, sheathe, sheathes

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Grasses and Grains, Leaf Shapes

Source

William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5558

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