(A) Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) 
as one would suspect from the name, has grass-like 
leaves and flowers that make one think of bright little 
blue eyes as they peep out of the meadow grass in which 
you find them. 
The Blue-eyed Grasses have recently been separated 
into thirteen species, differing chiefly in the compara¬ 
tive lengths of the flower spathes, or the lengths of the 
leaves as compared to the flower stem. The six divisions 
of the flower are regular, violet, with a yellow or white 
star-shaped center; each sepal is blunt, with a thorn¬ 
like tip. Common from N. B. to B. C. and southwards. 
(B) Crested Dwarf Iris (Iris cristata ). Flowers 
usually solitary, very delicate in form and of a light 
violet color; the sepals have a central crested rib of a 
bright orange color; the smaller petals are also crested. 
The tube is long and thread-like. Leaves lanceolate, 
about 5 to 7 in. long; those forming the spathe are 
ovate-lanceolate. This attractive little Iris is found on 
rich wooded hillsides and along streams, from Md. and 
Ind. southwards, flowering in April and May. 
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