43 TRfANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. he'Teranthera / 



Hab. In muddy, overflowed situations. On the banks of the 

 Passaic, 8cc. New-Jersey. Near Fishkill, New-York. In 

 Si)utli-Bay, below Hudson. Eaton. Near New-Haven, 

 Connecticut. Prof. Ives. In the vicinity of Philadelphia, 

 common ; and in the Slate of Delaware. Barton. July — 

 August. 



32. SISYRINCHIUM. L, 



Spatha 2-leaved. Corolla (calyx Juss.) 6-petalIed/ 

 flat, tqual. Stamens cohering below. Stigma 3-cleft. 

 dpsule 3- celled. Gen. pL llOl. JVutt. Gen. I. 

 p. 24. Ju ss. p. 57. Roe m. b' Schul t. Gen. 143. 

 Lam. III. t. DLXIX. Nat. Ord. Irides Juss. 

 Munoecia monadelphia L i n. Blue-eyed Grass. 



1. S. anceps C a v a n. : scape 2- edged, winged, simple, 

 nearly iealiess ; spath about 4-flowered, unequal, shorter than 

 the flowers ; petals mucronate. Willd. Spec. HI. p. 579. 

 Pers.Spi.l.p.5Q. P u r s h Fl. \. p. 31. Big.Bosf. 

 p 161. Roem. ^r S c hu 1 1, I. p. 493. S. hermudianum 

 Mich. Fl. II. p. 33. S. bermudianum «, Lin. Syst. Veg.. 

 682. S. graminmm L a m. Encyc. I. p, 403. Curt. Mag, 

 464. Redout e liliac.Y. t. 282. Bermudiana graminea, 

 &c. Dill. hort. Ellh. t. 41, f, 49? Sys. bermudiense, «fec. 

 Pluk.Alnu 368. t. 61. f. 2. 



Root perennial. S<em about a foot high, a little branched to- 

 wards the top, remarkably alicipitous, with the margins ex- 

 tended into wings. Leaves narrow-linear and grass-like. S/iath 

 consisting of 2 lanceolate acute valves nearly equal. Floivers 

 on slender peduncles projecting beyond the spath, blue ; pe- 

 tals emarginate, with a central cusp, narrowed at the base. 

 Stamens at first connected by their filaments at the base into a 

 tube ; anthers linear. Style passing through the tube of the 

 stamens, and equalling it in length ; stigmas a little spreading, 

 Cafisule large, globose, obscurely triangular, 3-valved. 



Hab. In Wft meadows, among grass ; common. Sometimes in 

 sandy woods ; as in the pine-barrens of New-Jersey. May — 

 June. 



Willdenoiv quotes the synonym of Dil tenius, (uL 

 supra) under his S. anceps, but the petals, in the figure, are 

 ol>long-lanceolate and acuminate, which is not the. case in cup 

 plant. 



2. S. mucronatum Mich.: scape simple, winged ; spath 

 coloured, one of the valves extended into a long marcescent 

 point. Mich. FLU. Y>.33. P e r s. Syn.\. p. 50. Pnrsk 

 Fl. 1. p. 31. Roem. <^ Schul t. I. p. 494. S. cceruleum, 

 &c. PluL £lm.. 36B.t. Ql,(. \. 



