SISYRINCHIUM ANCEPS r-BITOEYED GRASS. 



LINN. CLASS, MONADELPHIA ; ORDER, TR1ANDRIA. 

 NATURAL ORDER, IRIDEjE. 



This beautiful little flower is found growing in meadow- 

 lands, and, as it seldom exceeds eight inches in height, is 

 generally lost to the eye of the unobservant, hiding its sweet 

 treasures of purple buds and sapphire blossoms beneath the 

 shade of the more aspiring, though unadorned varieties of the 

 grass tribe. It prefers a soil that is moist, though by no 

 means swampy ; and is found in perfection during the month 

 of June. It has no qualities to recommend it, save its simple 

 beauty, and as such may well be chosen the emblem of 

 maiden modesty. 



This flower belongs to the Natural Order, Irideae; the 

 members of which are slightly stimulating, and some are 

 poisonous. Its scape or culm is simple, two-edged ; spathe, 

 two-leaved : corolla, superior, six-cleft, tubular ; stigma, three- 

 cleft ; capsule, three-celled. 



