236 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



a. SISYRIIV'CaiVIH, L. BltrE-ETED Gbass. 



1. S. angUStifO'lium, Mill. (& Bermudiana, var. muero- 

 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. a,IlGepS, Cav., {8. Bermudiana, var. anceps, Gray.) 

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

 more pedunoled spathes. 



Order CII. AMARYLLIDA'CE.J:. (Amaryllis ¥:) 



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. — Eepresented with us by one 

 species of the genus 



HYPOX'TfS, L. Stae-ghass. 

 H. ereeta, L. A small herb sending np 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 GUI. DIOSCOREA'CELS!. (Tam Family.) 

 Kepresented with us by the genus 



DIOSCORE'A, Plumler. Tam. 

 D. Villo'sa, L. (Wild Tam-root.) A slender twiner, 

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

 ribbed petioled leaves. Flowers dioecious, small, in axillary 

 racemes. Stamens 6. Pod with three large wings. — Ee- 

 ported only from the warm and sheltered valley lying 



