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SIsYRINCHIUM PEDUNCULATUM. Lone- 
STALKED SISYRINCHIUM. 
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Class and Order. 
MonapetpuiaA TRIANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord. — Inuez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Spatha diphylla. Perianthium simplex, corollinum, pro- 
funde sex-partitum, equale. Filamenta connata. Stylus 
simplex. Stigma trifidum. Capsula tri-locularis, infera. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Sisyrincuium* pedunculatum ; caule folioso teretiusculo, 
foliis ensiformibus, pedunculis elongatis simplicibus, 
spathis exterioribus ovatis marginibus membranaceis, 
interioribus scariosis albidis, perianthii laciniis obovatis 
basi angustatis, staminum columna densissime glan- 
duloso-pilosa, stigmatibus brevissimis, ovario glabro. 
SisyRincuium pedunculatum. Gillies MSS. 
* 
Descr. Root fibrous. Stems one, to one and a half and 
two feet high, rounded, or but slightly compressed, zigzag, 
leafy. Leaves: radical ones, six to eight inches long. Stem- 
leaves remote, gradually shorter upwards, linear -ensiform, 
Sheathing at the base, and there laterally compressed, 
acuminated, striated, the uppermost one conduplicate, and 
a little membranous at the edge. Pedunele solitary, or two 
to four, from within the upper complicated leaf or gece 
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* From ovs, a hog, and puyyos, a snout, applied to some bulbous plant, and 
Spoken of by Purny and THeopurastus. = 
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