256 Class XVI. Order V. 



MONADELPHIA. 

 TRIJUVDRM. 



27G. SISYRINCHIUM. 

 SISYRINCHIUM ANCEPS. Blue eyed Grass. 



Stem two edged, spathe longer than the flowers, 

 petals mucronated, germs glabrous. 



Syn. SlSTRlNCHlUM GRAM1NEUM. Curt. 



The small, delicate, blue flowers of this plant are not unfre- 

 quent among the grass in moist ground. Stem two edged, the 

 edges extending into a wide margin ; smooth, with one or two 

 branches, often a foot high. Leaves linear, grass like, sheathing 

 at base. Spathes swelling, pointed, the outermost inclosing 

 several others, each producing a flower. Peduncles filiform. 

 Flowers shorter than the spathe, purple. Germs smooth or a 

 little villous. Petals six, spreading, terminated by a point. 

 June, July. Perennial. 



DECANURM. 



277. GERANIUM. 

 GERANIUM MACULATUM. L. Spotted Geranium or CranesbilL 



Peduncles two flowered ; stem forked, erect ; leaves 

 five parted and cut, the upper ones sessile. L. 



Bigelow, Medical Botany, PI. viii. 



No family of plants is more extensively cultivated for orna- 

 ment than the Linnaean genus Geranium, since divided by L'He- 

 ritier into three genera, Erodium, Pelargonium, and Geranium. 

 It must be confessed that a great number of exotic species are 

 carefully propagated in green houses and parlours, which are 

 altogether inferior to the present very beautiful native. It is 

 very common about fences and the edges of woods, preferring a 

 soil that is somewhat moist. Stems erect, hairy, dividing by 

 forks, or more numerous branches, one or two feet high. Leaves 

 large, spreading, hairy, divided in a palmate manner into five or 

 seven lobes, which are variously cut and toothed at their ex- 

 tremities, the lower ones petioled, the upper ones nearly sessile. 



