370 XYRIDACEAE. 
Xyris Caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 69. 1788. 
Nyris Jupacat Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 23. 1803. 
Xyris elata Chapm. Fl. S. States, 501. 1860. 
Scapes mostly slender, straight or somewhat 
twisted, 2 edged above, 1°-2° tall, not thickened at 
4. Xyris Caroliniana Walt. Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass. (Fig. 896.) 
the base. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, flat, 
4/-15’ long, 1-5’ wide, head globose, ovoid or 
broadly oval, blunt, 4/’-8’’ long; scales oval or 
slightly obovate, entire or somewhat lacerate; lat- 
eral sepals linear, about as long as the bracts, the 
narrowly winged keel lacerate or incised-serrate 
In swamps and bogs, Massachusetts to Pennsylvania, 
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Fe states of this plant may be mistaken for \. mon/ana. 
5. Xyris fimbriata Ell. Fringed Yellow- 
eyed Grass. (Fig. 897.) 
NXyris fimbriata Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1:52. 1816. 
Scapes rather stout, roughish, straight or some- 
what twisted, strongly 2-edged above, 2°-4° high. 
Leaves flat, one-half as long as the scapes or more, 
3//-6’’ wide; head oblong-cylindric, '%/—1’ long or 
sometimes globose-ovoid and about 4’ in diameter; 
scales obovate, their margins entire or the apex 
lacerate; lateral sepals longer than the bracts, ex- 
serted, long-fringed on the winged keel above the 
middle. 
In wet pine barrens, southern New Jersey to Florida 
and Mississippi, mostly near the coast. July—Sept. 
6. Xyris torta J. E. Smith. Twisted Yellow-eyed Grass. (Fig. 898.) 
Ayris torla J. E. Smith in Rees’ Cycl, 1819. 
Scapes stout, much spirally twisted, 1-edged be- 
low, or 2-edged at the summit, smooth or very 
nearly so, the base conspicuously bulbous-thick- 
ened and with the sheathing leaves sometimes 1’ 
in diameter. Leaves narrowly linear from a broad 
shining nearly black base, rigid, rather shorter 
than the scapes, spirally twisted ( very markedly so 
when old); head oblong or oblong-cylindric, acute 
or subacute, 14/-1’ long; bracts oblong-obovate, 
minutely lacerate-serrulate at the apex or entire; 
lateral sepals linear, exserted, the winged keel 
fringed with rather short processes above the 
middle. 
In dry pine barrens, southern New Jersey to Florida, 
west to Texas, mostly near the coast, extending north 
to Arkansas (according to Watson and Coulter). May- 
Aug. 
