YELLOW-EYED GRASS FAMILY. Xyridaceas. 



YELLOW-EYED GRASS FAMILY. Xyridacece. 



Perennial herbs with narrow, grassHlie leaves, and 

 perfect, regular flowers, with three spreading lobes and 

 a slender tube. Fertilized largely by insects. 

 Yellow=eyed ^ ^^^^^^ swamp plant with grasslike, or 



Grass rather slender rushlike, light green leaves 



Xyrisflexuosa which twist as they grow old, and flowers 

 Yellow about \ inch across, of three yellow petal- 



u y- ugus j^j^^ divisions, three stamens, and as man}' 

 sepals, the flowers proceeding from a conelike head com- 

 posed of light green leafy scales. The fruit is an oblong 

 many-seeded capsule. The name is from Sfpz? an 

 unknown Greek plant with two-edged leaves. The 

 plant grows 6-16 inches high, in sandy bogs or morasses, 

 from Me. to Minn., and south to Ga. and Tex. There 

 is a mountain variety barely 1 foot high, with very 

 slender leaves, which rarely twist, known as var. pusilla. 

 It is found in bogs from the White Mts., south to the 

 Pocono Mts. of Penn., and in N. J. It blooms in the 

 same season. 



A tall species, with a slender flower- 

 Carolina Yel= , / ' , . , . , . 

 low=eyed Grass stem, and leaves reachnig nearly an inch m 



Xyris Carolini- width. The conelike head also longer 



ana and measuring nearly f inch. It growls 



Yellow -|^_2 fgg^ high, and is found in swamps 



near the coast from Mass., south to Fla. 



and La. 



SPIDERWORT FAMILY. Commelinacece. 



Herbs wuth jointed and often leafy branching stems, 

 the leaves sheathed at the base, and generally perfect 

 flowers, i. e., flowers with stamens and pistil. Cross- 

 fertilization assisted by insects. 



The grass green leaves are lance-shaped, 



ay ower ^^^ browm-sheathed at their iunction wuth 

 Commelina hir- "^ 



t^llfi the plant-stem; the sheath is hairy-edged. 



Light violet= The flowers are three-parted and irregular, 



^''"^ that is, unequal in size, form, and struc- 



"^"* be tural parts ; for instance, two of the blue 



petals are larger than the third. The leaf 



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