128 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. fBull. 



BELAMCANDA Adans. Blackberry Lily. 



Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC. 

 Gemmingia chinensis Kuntze. 

 Blackberry Lily. Leopard Flower. 



Escaped from cultivation to roadsides and waste places, 

 more often in rocky ground. Frequent in the southwestern 

 part of the state, becoming occasional or rare northward and 

 eastward, reaching Danbury (Miss G. L. Northrop), Sharon 

 and Portland (Dr. E. J. Thompson), Berlin (Andrews & Bis- 

 sell), East Lyme (F. H. Dart), Norwich (Mrs. E. E. Rogers). 

 July — Aug. ; fruit Sept. — Nov. Adventive from Asia. 



SISYRINCHIUM L. Blue-eyed Grass. 



Sisyrinchium albidum Raf. (whitish). 



Rare. New London, one plant in a dry field (Miss E. Coit, 

 1889). May. Fugitive from the western United' States. 



Sisyrinchium mucronatum Michx. (having an abrupt, short 

 point) . 



Meadows and woods, usually in rather dry ground. Occa- 

 sional in the northwestern part of the state, becoming rare 

 southward and eastward, reaching Newtown (Fames), Oxford 

 (Harger), Plainville and Glastonbury (Bissell). Mid-May — 

 June. 



Sisyrinchium angustifolium Mill, (narrow-leaved). 



Dry or moist fields. Occasional in the southwestern part 

 of the state; frequent or common elsewhere. Mid-May — 

 June. 



Forms intermediate between Sisyrinchium angustifolium 

 and Sisyrinchium, gramineum occur at New London, Groton 

 and Ledyard (Graves), and have been called Sisyrinchium 

 intermedium Bicknell. 



Sisyrinchium gramineum Curtis (grass-like). 

 Sisyrinchium anceps of Gray's Manual ed. 6. 

 Sisyrinchium graminoides Bicknell. 



Frequent or common. Fields, meadows, thickets and 

 woods, generally in moist ground. June. 



