354 AMARYLLIDACEiE. 



Gravelly shores of Lake Huron. Nutt. June. 'l\.. — Root tuberous, creeping. 

 Scape compressed, scarcely an inch long. Leaves 3 — 5 inches long and 1-4 of 

 an inch broad. Torr. Camp. Lake Iris. 



2. SISYRINCHIUM. Linn.— Blue-eyed Grass. 



(From the Greek <rvs, a hog, and pvyxos, a snout ,• hogs being supposed to be 

 fond of rooting it up.) 



Spathe 2-leaved, bract-like. Perianth colored ; limb flat, 

 6 -cleft ; the lobes equal ; tube short. Stamens 3, the filaments 

 mostly united below. Style short. Stigmas 3. Capsule pe- 

 dicellate, roundish-triangular. 



1. S. mucronatum Mich.: scape simple, narrowly winged; valves of the 

 spathe unequal, colored ; the outer one longer than the peduncles, tapering 

 to a rigid point. S. Bermudiana var. Torr. 



Wet meadows. N. Y. to Virg. W. to the Platte River. May, June. %. — 

 Scape 6 — 10 inches high, slender. Leaves narrow- linear, grass-hke. Flowers 

 3 — 4 from each spathe, blue. Mucronate Blue-eyed Grass. 



2. S. anceps Linn. : scape simple, broadly winged; valves of the spathe 

 nearly equal, shorter than the peduncles. S. gramineum Lam. S. Bermu- 

 diana var. Torr. 



Pastures, &c. Can. to Flor. July. %. — Scape 12 — 18 inches high, some- 

 what branching above. Spathe with the valves nearly equal, not colored. 

 Flowers 2 — 5 from each spathe, blue. Common Blue-eyed Grass. 



Order CXXVII. AMARYLLIDACE^.— Amaryllids. 



Perianth petaloid, regular, 6 -cleft ; the outer segments over- 

 lapping the inner. Stamens 6, sometimes cohering below. 

 Ovary 3 -celled ; style 1 ; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a 3 -celled 3- 

 valved capsule, or a 1 — 3 -seeded berry. Seeds with fleshy or 

 corneous albumen. — Mostly bulbous, sometimes fibrous rooted, 

 plants. Leaves ensiform, with parallel veins. Flowers usually 

 spathaceous. 



1. ABIARYLLIS. Linn. — Amaryllis. 

 (From the nymph Amaryllis, mentioned in Virgil. Eat. Man.) 



Perianth 6-parted, petaloid, unequal. Stamens 6, arising 

 from the orifice of the tube, declined or straight, unequal. Style 

 1. Stigma 3-lobed. Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved. 



A. Atamasco Linn. : spathe bifid, acute ; flower pedicellate ; perianth 

 subcampanulate, subequal, erect, short and tubular at the base ; stamens 

 dechned, equal. 



Shady woods. Perm. Muhl. S. to Gteor. June. 'Zl- Scape 6 mches high. 



Leaves a foot long, linear, aoncave, smooth. Flower solitary, large, white and 

 pink. Atamjosco Lily. 



