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Houston, an English physician, who was interested 

 in the Hora of Mexico. 



Blue-eyed Grass. ^ flight to have said blue-eyed grass 

 tiuyrincMum was the oiily flowcr daintier than 



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bluets, it one is to speak irom Ins 

 own point of view ; yet this is hardly fair, because 

 the blue-eyed grass is a bolder and 

 larger flower, just reminding one of 

 a violet. Unfortunately, it shuts up 

 at once on being picked, and unless 

 there is plenty of sunlight it refuses 

 to open its eye at all ; its color is 

 purplish ultramarine blue, darker to- 

 ward the center, where there is a 

 touch of pure gold. There is a curi- 

 ous notch in each one of the six di- 

 visions of the perianth, from which 

 protrudes a little point, in shape like 

 a thorn. The leaves are narrow, 

 and look like bine Kentucky grass. 

 The flower stands about ten inches 

 luffh, and is scenerallv shut in the ^ 

 afternoon ; sometimes there are three 



, , , n 1 i T £ 1 Blue-eyed Grass. 



buds on a stalk, but I never tonnd 

 more than one open at a time. The flower grows 

 in clumps on the meadow, in the pasture, and at 

 the edge of the wood, but generally in moist places. 



