236 COMMOtf CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



2. siSYKlV't'llini, L. BLUE-EYED GRASS. 



1. S. angUStifO'lium, Mill. (8. Bermudiana, var. muero- 

 natum, Gray.) A pretty little plant, rather common in 

 moist meadows among grass. The divisions of the delicate 

 blue perianth obovate, notched at the end, and bristle- 

 pointed from the notch. The spathe solitary. Boots 

 fibrous. 



2. S. aneepS, Cav., (8. Bermudiana, var. anceps, Gray.) 

 has the scape 6-18 inches high, and usually bearing 2 or 

 more peduncled spathes. 



ORDER Oil. AMARYLLIDA'CE^!. (AMARYLLIS F.) 



Bulbous and scape-bearing herbs, with linear flat root- 

 leaves, and regular and perfect 6-androus flowers, the tube 

 of the petal-like 6-parted perianth adherent to the 3-celled 

 ovary. Lobes of the perianth imbricated in the bud. Style 

 single. Anthers introrse. Eepresented with us by one. 

 species of the genus 



HYPOX'YS, L. STAR-GRASS. 



H. erect a, L. A small herb sending up a slender scape 

 from a solid bulb. Leaves linear, grass-like, longer than 

 the umbellately 1-4-flowered scape. Perianth hairy and 

 greenish outside, yellowish within, 6-parted nearly down 

 to the ovary. Stamens 6, sagittate. Pod indehiscent, 

 crowned with the withered perianth. Meadows and open 

 woods. 



ORDER GUI. DIOSCOREA'CE^!. (YAM FAMILY.) 

 Eepresented with us by the genus 



DIOSCORE'A, Plumier. YAM. 



D. Villo'sa, L. (WiLD YAM-ROOT.) A slender twiner, 

 with knotted rootstocks, and net- veined, heart-shaped, 9-11- 

 ' ribbed petioled leaves. Flowers dioscious, small, in axillary 

 racemes. Stamens 6. Pod with three large wings. Ee- 

 ported only from the warm and sheltered valley lying 



