YELLOW GROUP 



from within each of which a blossom may spring. The flower 

 withers very soon after picking. Massachusetts to South 

 Carolina and westward. (See illustration, p. 148.) 

 Fringed Yellow-eyed Grass 



X. fimbriate is a larger and taller species, 2 feet high, with a 

 more flattened, stouter stem, and a head of bracts over half an 

 inch, sometimes an inch, long. In this the lateral sepals are 

 fringed and project beyond the bracts. 



Found in New Jersey pine barrens, southward to Florida. 

 Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass 



X, ca.rolinia.na. sends up scapes 1 to 2 feet tall, slender, twisted 

 or straight. Leaves, linear, quite long. Head of flowers about 

 £ inch long. 



Found along the Atlantic States and in Pennsylvania. 



X. arenicola. — Leaves, long, narrow, twisted, from a broad, 

 thickened base which is covered with thick, brown scales, the 

 remains of older leaves. Sepals, fringed, not so long as in the 

 last species. Flowers, in a long, narrow head. 



In pine barrens, New Jersey south and west to Florida and 

 Mississippi. 



Water Star-grass 



Heteranthera dubta Family, Pickerel-weed. Color, pale yel- 

 low. An aquatic herb, with flowers, 1 or 2 from a spathe which 

 is partly covered by the sheathing base of a petiole. Perianth, a 

 long, thread-like tube, parted above into 6 long, narrow divisions. 

 Stamens, with arrow-shaped anthers, their filaments enlarged 

 below. Leaves, grass-like, sessile, translucent, submerged. The 

 flowers reach the surface of the water on slender, branching stems, 

 2 to 3 feet long. July to October. 



Rooted in mud, in shallow, still water. 



Bog Asphodel 



Narthecium americanum. — Family, Lily. Color, yellow. Leaves, 

 linear, one arising out of another, like those of iris, very narrow, 

 about 7-nerved; those above, quite small. June to September. 



From the sword-shaped, grass-like leaves a straight stem 

 arises, a foot to 18 inches high, bearing at the top a dense 

 raceme of small, greenish-yellow flowers, each with 6 narrow 

 similar sepals, 6 woolly stamens, and a sessile stigma. Bracts 

 attend the flowers. A rather pretty bog herb found in pine 

 barrens of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, to Virginia. 



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