236 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



9. sis vitl v< HIT M, L. BLUE-EYED GRASS. 



1. S. angUStifo'lium, Mill. (S. Bermudiana, var. mucro- 

 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., (S. Benmidiana, var. anceps, Gray.) 

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

 more peduncled spathes. 



ORDER CII. AMARYLLIDA'CE^l. (AMARYLLIS P.) 



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. Represented with us by one 

 species of the genus 



HYPOX'YS, L. STAR-GRASS. 



H. ereeta, L. A small herb sending up a slender scapo 

 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 CHI. DIOSCOIEA'CE.32. (YAM FAMILY.) 

 Represented with us by the genus 



IHOSOOIM: A, Plunder. YAM. 



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

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

 ribbed petioled leaves. Flowers dioecious, small, in axillary 

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

 ported only from the warm and sheltered valley lying 



