XYRIS CMOLINIAM-YELLOW STAR GRASS. 



LINN. CLASS, TRIANDRIA ; ORDER, MONOGYNIA. 

 NATURAL ORDER, XYRIDE.E. 



This simple and unpretending plant, sometimes called the 

 Yellow Flowering Rush, though more commonly the Yellow 

 Star Grass, is found during the months of August and September. 

 It prefers woods and grass-lands, choosing light and dry soils, 

 and seldom growing more than from nine to twelve inches in 

 height. Its delicate beauty is scarcely known, even to the 

 dweller by field and forest, for it is so small, and so unobtrusive 

 that the lover of nature might well be pardoned if, in the con- 

 templation of the combined effect of her charms, he should 

 sometimes neglect to observe the minute details which produce 

 such results. Its name is very significant, for it resembles 

 nothing so much as a golden star peering up from the soft 

 green earth. 



Its calyx is a cartilaginous glume, two or three-valved in a 

 head ; corolla three-petalled, equal ; capsule three-valved, 

 many seeded ; leaves linear, grass-like ; scape two-edged. 



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