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2. SISYRINCHIUM, L. BLUE-EYED GRASS. 



Perianth G-parted. Capsule membranaceous, subglobose. Stems simple 

 or branched, usually geniculate and winged, with linear-lanceolate or grass-like 

 radical leaves, and fugacious flowers on slender pedicels, clustered within 

 2 sheathing herbaceous bracts, with a scarious bractlet subtending each 

 pedicel. 



1. S. anceps, L. Scape broadly winged, and the outer leaf of the very 

 unequal spathe longer than the flowers. S. Bermudiana, var. anceps, of 

 Gray's Manual. In the Atlantic States, but extending westward to the 

 Wahsatch and Uintas (Watson). 



2. S. mucronatum, Michx. Scape slender and narrowly winged : leaves 

 very narrow, those of the spathe sharp-pointed and unequal, one of them 

 usually longer than the flowers. S. Bermudiana, var. mucronatum, of Gray's 

 Manual. Same range as last, but extending farther westward. 



ORDER 78. AM 



Like Liliacecs, but ovary inferior. Differs from Iridacece in having 

 six stamens and leaves not equitant. 



1. HYPOXYS, L. STAR-GRASS. 



Perianth persistent, spreading; the 3 outer divisions a little herbaceous 

 outside. Pod crowned with the withered or closed perianth. Seeds globular. 

 Stemless small herbs, with grassy and hairy linear leaves and slender few- 

 flowered scapes, from a solid bulb. 



1. H. juncea, Smith. Sparingly hairy: scapes 1 to 3, filiform, 1 or 

 2-flowered, 4 to 9 inches long : bracts bristle-like, shorter than the villous 

 pedicels : the three exterior divisions of the perianth greenish and hairy with- 

 out : seeds black, minutely fitted. Colorado (Brandegee). 



ORDER 79. LILIACEJS. (LILY FAMILY.) 



Terrestrial plants, mostly herbaceous, with perfect flowers, a regular 

 corolla-like 6-cleft or divided perianth, stamens opposite the segments, 

 ovary 3-celled and superior becoming a few or many-seeded 3-celled 

 capsule or berry. Stems chiefly from tunicated or scaly bulbs, or 

 conns, or rhizomes. Watson's Revision, Proc. Am. Acad. xiv. 213. 



I. Flowers with scarious bracts, a persistent perianth with segments one to several-nerved, 

 perigynous staraeus with introrse anthers, and an undivided and mostly persistent 

 style. 

 * Inflorescence umbellate upon a naked scape from a bulb or conn ; sessile upon a short 



rootstock in Leucocrinum. 



*- Bracts (usually 2) broad and spathaceous : capsule more or less deeply lobed : perianth 

 cleft nearly to the base : bulb mostly tunicated. 



