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^S'lSYRINCHIUM* grandifldrum 



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I^rge -flowered Sisyrinchmm 



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TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 





STSYRINCHIUM. 



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grandiflorum ; caule stricto glauco strlato 

 iongiore, spathis bifloris : foliolis erectis al 



anthio pedicello subeoq""'-* 

 ». grandiflorum. Douglas. 



vaginantibus 

 ngiore, peri- 



sim^/ZlT'' ^«^'"*"«/*^o«5, repentihus. Caulis erectus, striatus, glaucus, 

 Z711"!T:''' ?«'"'«'•« »^- >««^^ ^^^tr^- Folia glauca. inferiora squal 



caule breviora. 

 lanceolato. 



jyonnea, superior a erecta, basi 

 Jatha erecfa, 6ii;aZt;is, /o/«o/w 

 Jionbus longiore. Perianthium at 

 sangumeis, antheris luteis. 



filamentis 



. '^^s beautiful little herbaceous plant is a native of 

 jne JNorth-west of North America, near the great falls of 

 ine river Columbia, where Mr. Douglas found it in 1826. 

 y js a hardy herbaceous plant, flowering in May and June, 



ut IS at present exceedingly rare, only two or three seeds 

 naving grown, and the plants from these increasing very 



owly. It appears to love a peat border among bushes. 



^ur drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural 

 Society. 



g A perennial plant, with fibrous, creeping roots. SUm 



i "^ h •' ?*'^^^^^^» glaucous, quite simple, a span or little more 

 n height. Leaves glaucous, the lower scale-like, the upper 





Uj^ ^ . <^<o-t»5«V^<«» of Theopbrastus appears to have be 



rpiol^? Sisyrinchium or Trichonema Bulbocodium. both 



related to this. It was so called 



because it was sought as food 



