354 AMARYLLIDACE/E. 



Gravelly shores of Lake Huron. Nutt. June. '4- Root tuberous, creeping. 

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

 an inch broad. Torr. Comp. Lake Iris. 



2. SISYRINCHIUM. Linn. Blue-eyed Grass. 



(From the Greek avs , a hog, and (n>y%of, 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. '2J-. 

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

 34 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^E.- 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. AMARYLLIS. 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 

 declined, equal. 



Shady woods. Penn. Muhl. S. to Geor. June. 7J. Scape 6 inches high. 



Leaves a foot long, linear, concave, smooth. Flower solitary, large, white aud 

 pink. Atamasco Lily. 



