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This material was mostly distributed as H. juncea or as H. filifolia. 
2. H. mırsuTa (L.) Coville. Corm subglobose to ellipsoid, 0.5- 
2 cm. thick, covered with membranaceous, pale or brown-tinged 
sheaths not becoming fibrillous: leaves linear, rather firm, 1-8 mm. 
broad, 1-6 dm. long; peduncles filiform, stiffish or spreading, 0.4-3.5 
dm. long, mostly 2-7-flowered; the pedicels elongate; ovary and cap- 
sule densely pilose; perianth-segments lanceolate to elliptic or narrowly 
ovate, 0.5-1.5 cm. long; capsule ellipsoid, 2-6 mm. long; seeds 0.8-1.3 
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mm. in diameter, black, lustrous; the outer coat closely covered with 
sharp murications.—Mem. Torr. Bot. Cl. v. 118 (1894). .Ornttho- 
galum hirsutum L. Sp. 306 (1753). H. erectum L. Syst. ed. 10, ii. 
986 (1759). H. pallida Salisb. Prodr. 248 (1796). H. carolinensis 
Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 188 (1803). ZH. graminea Pursh, Fl. Am. 
Sept.i.224 (1814). H. grandis Pollard in Small, Fl. S. E. U. 5.287 and 
1329 (1903).—Open woods, meadows, and pastures, southern New 
Hampshire to Manitoba, south to Florida and Texas, ascending in the 
southeastern states to an altitude of 1220 meters (4000 feet). 
Extremely variable in breadth of leaf and size and shape of perianth- 
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