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diameter: i i very 2 linear-attenuate, IA plieate: e 
very slender, simple or rarely branched: perianth 4.5—6 wide: als 
obovate: EE ne cuneate or cuneate-obovate: one, eer style n 
or quite 1 cm. long: capsule ellipsoid or elli n s 1.5-2 em. long. 
Eie coelestina Bartr. Nemastylis coelestina Nutt. i art] Flatwoods N pen. 
and S Ga. (?)—Spr.—The flowers are locally aig violets 
BELAMCANDA Adans. Caulescent herbs with horizontal rootstocks. 
m me folded. Flowers in corymbose cymes. Sepals and petals pink, 
orange, or reddish, mottled with crimson- 
purple spots, nearly equal, distinet or 
nearly so, persistent and coiled on th 
capsule.—One species. 
1. B. chinensis (L.) DC. Stem 3-13 
dm. tall: leaf-blades with the faces 
united above the middle: sepals and pet- 
als a 2. 9-3. o em. long: capsule 
2-2.5 lon seeds black, shining. 
ieee ae Kuntze ]|—(BLACK- 
RY-LILY. PARDELLE.)—Dry hills, road- 
sides, and fence-rows, various provinces 
ex. : d ; : 
China, and cult—(W. I.)—Sum.—An 
EP escape from gardens. 
4. SISYRINCHIUM L. Perennial scapose usually tufted Bree -like herbs, 
nd fibr ts. L 
with distinct or obsolete rootstocks an rous roots. Leaves basal: blades 
linear: scapes 2-edged or 2- Ae when branched each node furnished wit 
a bract resembling a leaf- e: flowers in terminal clusters arising from 
spathes of mostly 2 bracts aa Perianth blue, white or yellow: lobes s spread- 
ing. Stamens 3; filaments united to ae top or nearly so: anthers clustered. 
Ovary 3-celled: style-branches filiform, alternate with the anthers, or styles 
mostly wholly united: ovules few to many in each cavity of the ovary. p- 
sule subglobose or ena or longer than thick, globular or angled, readily 
opening near the apex.—Numerous species, all American.—BLUE-EYED GRASSES: 
FEVER-GRASSES. IRISETTES. ae sachs ea ie of this genus by the late Eugene 
Pintard B in vu are nume ritieal species not here included may 
be found in the Flora of the ura States. This partial revision pre- 
pared by Edward Johnston Alexander. 
Scape terminated by a sessile or a pair of sessile EDAM: SESSILES. 
Scape terminated by one or more peduncled spathes na PEDUNCULATAE. 
SESSILES l 
Old shreds, not persistent, or E so, merely soft, loose 
Spathe solitary or normally s 
Le af. blades ds Pape moss 1. A 5 mm. wide, dis- 
tinctly winged: capsule 4-6 mm. lon 1. S. angustifolium. 
Leaf blades s anal scapes mostly ieee an s, 5 mm. wide, 
ned or narrowly winged: capsule 2-4 mm. ; 
lon ne 2. S. mucronatum, 
Spathes ou O or rarely 3 or Bancs solitary in 
Bosne distinctly winged: leaf-blades 1.5-3 m wide: 
spathe and scape smooth and glabrous or eat SO. 3. S. albidum. 
