YELLOW-EYED GRASS FAMILY. Xyridaceee. 



YELLOW-EYED GRASS FAMILY. Xyridaceee. 



Perennial herbs with narrow, grasslike leaves, and 

 perfect, regular flowers, with three spreading lobes and 

 a slender tube. Fertilized largely by insects. 

 Yellow-eyed ^ little swamp plant with grasslike, or 

 Grass rather slender rushlike, light green leaves 



Xyrisflexuosa which twist as they grow old, and flowers 

 Iul"Au ust about i inch acr 088 . of three yellow petal- 

 like divisions, three stamens, and as many 

 sepals, the flowers proceeding from a conelike head com- 

 posed of light green leafy scales. The fruit is an oblong 

 many-seeded capsule. The name is from vpis an 

 unknown Greek plant with two-edged leaves. The 

 plant grows 6-16 inches high, in sandy bogs or morasses, 

 from Me. to Minn., and south to Ga. and Tex. There 

 is a mountain variety barely 1 foot high, with very 

 lender leaves, which rarely twist, known as var. pusilla. 

 [t is found in bogs from the White Mts., south to the 

 ^ocono Mts. of Penn., and in N. J. It blooms in the 

 same season. 



H v i ^ * a ^ 8 P ec i es > with a slender flower- 



low-eyed Grass stem, and leaves reaching nearly an inch in 

 Xyris Carolini- width. The conelike head also longer 

 ana an d measuring nearly f inch. It grows 



JuI'eAu ust 1-2 feet high ' and iS found in swam P s 

 near the coast from Mass., south to Fla. 



and La. 



SPIDERWORT FAMILY. Commelinacece. 



Herbs with jointed and often leafy branching stems, 

 the leaves sheathed at the base, and generally perfect 

 flowers, i. e., flowers with stamens and pistil. Cross- 

 fertilization assisted by insects. 



The grass green leaves are lance-shaped, 

 Day Flower and b rown . s ] iea thed at their junction with 

 Commehna hir- * 



tella the plant-stem; the sheath is hairy-edged. 



Light violet. The flowers are three-parted and irregular, 

 W e that is, unequal in size, form, and struc- 



tural parts ; for instance, two of the blue 

 petals are larger than the third. The leaf 



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