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THE cylindrical form of the stems of grasses is so universal a feature in the family that the report of the existence in China and Japan of a bamboo with manifestly four-angled stems, has generally been considered a myth, or, at any rate, as founded on some diseased or abnormal condition of a species having stems, when properly developed, circular in section.
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DYER, W. The Square Bamboo . Nature 32, 391–392 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032391d0
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