154 FLORA OF MOUNT DESERT. 



C. acaule, Ait. Stemless Lady's Slipper. 



Common in woods. 

 Forma albiflorum. 



Flowers pure white, or white with indistinct pink veins. 

 Near Breakneck Ponds (Rand) ; — Beech Mt. Notch ; woods, 

 Hadlock Lower Pond (R. & R.). 



IRIDACE^. Iris Family. 



IRIS, L. Blue Flag. 

 I. versicolor, L. 



Very common everywhere in moist ground, especially in low 

 grounds near the coast. 



SISYRINCHIUM, L. Blue-eyed Grass. 

 S. angustifolium, Mill. S. Bermudiana, L.* 



Common in grassy places. Whatever may he the fact in re- 

 gard to the specific rank of S. anceps and S. vmcronatum, all the 

 Island forms must be referred to S. angustifolium. A specimen 

 with a single spathe, collected by F. M. Day, in 1882, probably 

 in the vicinity of Bar Harbor, has been somewhat doubtfully 

 marked S. anceps in the herbarium. A recent and more careful 

 examination, however, seems to show that it is nothing more than 

 S. an giisti folium with smaller, probably immature seeds. It is 

 worthy of remark that not a specimen of the true *S^. anceps form 

 has yet been found on the Island, although S. angustifolium is 

 so very abundant. This fact is evidence that these forms of the 

 plant merit at least varietal distinction. 



LILIACE.^. Lily Family. 

 HEMEROCALLIS, L. Day Lily. 



H. FULVA, L. 



Often by roadsides near dwellings; escaped from cultivation. 

 Town Hill (R. &R,); — Somesville; Emery District; South- 

 west Harbor (Rand). Adventive from Europe. 



* See Morong, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xx. 467. 



