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1. Hypoxis hiksuta (L.) Coville. Star-grass. 
Ornit/wgalum hirsutum L. Sp. PI. 300. 1753. 
Hypoxis crecta L. Syst. Ed. 10, 2 : 986. 1759. 
Jlypoxis liirsiita Coville, Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 118. 1894. 
Corm globose to ovoid or oblong, 3 — G lines in diameter; roots many, 
fibrous; leaves basal, villous or glabrate, narrowly linear, 1 — 3 lines 
wide; scapes 2 — G inches high, usually shorter than the leaves, villous 
above, generally glabrous below, slender, ereci; flowers umbellate, 1 — G; 
pedicels longer than the subulate bracts; perianth-segments narrowly 
oblong, obtuse or acutish, spreading, 3 — 5 lines long, bright yellow within, 
greenish and villous without; stamens slightly unequal; style 3-angled, 
somewhat shorter than the stamens, the stigmas decurrent on the 
angles; capsule 1 — 2 lines in diameter; seeds globular, black, angled, 
short-beaked by the stalks. 
The range of this species is quite extensive, it being from Maine to 
Assiniboia, south to Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Kansas. In 
Iowa it is common in low prairie soil, though frequent in higher and 
drier situations. It is also found in meadows and open woods. The 
flowers commonly appear in May and June, and it is stated even so late 
as October. The type locality is: ''Habitat in Virginia, Canada.” 
In Iowa the species is widely distributed. Specimens in the writer’s 
herbarium are from Winneshiek, Johnson, Decatur, and Shelby counties. 
Specimens in the State University herbarium are from the additional 
counties of Emmet, Delaware, Henry, Lee, Calhoun and Lyon. Professor 
Bessey reported the species from Story, Poweshiek, Des Moines and 
Warren counties; Barnes, Reppert and Miller from Scott and Muscatine 
counties; Gow from Adair county; and Peck from Hardin county. 
Parry, C. C. Owen's Report of the (Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa 
and Minnesota, p. 019, 1852. 
Bessey, C. E. Fourth Biennial Report of the Iowa State Agricultural Col- 
lege, p. 121, 1872. 
Arthur, J. C. Contributions to the Flora of low’a, p. 31, 1876. 
Nagel, J. J. and Haupt, J. G. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of 
Natural Sciences, Yol. 1, p. 164, 1870. 
Hitchcock, A. S. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, Yol. 
5, p. 519, 1892. 
Pammel, L. II. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1892, A'ol. 
1, part 3, p. 60, 1893; Yol. 9, 1901, p. 178, 1902. 
Rigg, G. B. Notes on the Flora of Calhoun County, Iowa, p. 26, 1896. 
Fink, Bruce. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1896, A'ol. 4, 
p. 103, 1897. 
Shimek, B. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1897, A'ol. 5, p. 
31, 1898; Iowa Geological Survey, A'ol. 10, p. 177, 1900. 
Fitzpatrick, T. J. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1897, A'ol. 
5, p. 129, 1898. 
Fitzpatrick, T. J. and M. F. L. Proceedings of the Iowa xAcademy of Sciences, 
•1897, Yol. 5, p. 165, 1898. 
Barnes, W. D'. ; Reppert, Fred ; and Miller, A. A. Proceedings of the Daven- 
port Academy of Sciences, Yol. 8, p. 260, 1900. 
Gow, James E. Proceedings of the Iowa xAcademy of Sciences, 1900, Vol. 8, 
p. 159, 1901. 
