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ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rolled backward, wavy -margined, 

 two- thirds to i inch long, as long or longer than the sepals; anthers about 

 as long as the subulate filaments and overtopping the stout, recurved styles, 

 ovary whitish, ripening into an ovoid reddish-purple berry. 



In rich, usually low woodlands Newfoundland to Ontario and 

 Manitoba, south to Georgia and Missouri. Flowering in May or in the 

 extreme northern part of its range in June, usually about ten days later 

 than the white or red trilliums. 



Amaryllis Family 



Amaryllidaceae 



Yellow Star Grass 



Hypoxis hirsuta (Linnaeus) Coville 



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A low, perennial herb with the leaves all basal, narrowly linear, one- 

 eighth to one-fourth of an inch wide, more or less villous and mostly 

 longer than the flowering stems, from an ovoid or globose corm, one-fourth 

 to one-half of an inch in diameter; flowering stems erect, slender, villous 

 above, usually glabrous below, 2 to 6 inches high, bearing at the summit 

 an umbel of one to seven flowers; perianth six-parted, its segments narrowly 

 oblong, spreading, equal or nearly so, obtuse, bright yellow within, greenish 

 and villous without, one-fourth to one-half of an inch long; stamens some- 

 what unequal; the style rather shorter than the stamens and three-angled, 

 the stigma decurrent on the angles; capsules in fruit about one-eighth 

 of an inch in diameter, the black seeds angled. 



In dry, especially sandy soil, in fields, thickets and open woods, Maine 

 to Ontario, Assiniboia, Kansas, Florida and Texas. Flowering in May 

 and June, but frequently putting up additional flowering scapes as late 

 as August and September. 



