. A spring flora for high schools. Botany. IRIDACEAE (IRIS FAMILY) 41 slender few-flowered scapes. Perianth spreading, 6-parted nearly down to the ovary, persistent. H. hirsuta. Yellow-eyed Grass. The leaves are longer than the 1-4 flowered scape. Flowers in an umbel. The divisions of the peri- anth yellow within and hairy and greenish without. Meadows and open woods. IRIDACEAE (Iris Family) Herbs, with vertical 2-ranked leaves, and conspicuous perfect flowers, arising from a spathe of 2 or more leaves or bracts. IRIS Branches of the style or the stigmas opposite the anthers. Sepals spreading
. A spring flora for high schools. Botany. IRIDACEAE (IRIS FAMILY) 41 slender few-flowered scapes. Perianth spreading, 6-parted nearly down to the ovary, persistent. H. hirsuta. Yellow-eyed Grass. The leaves are longer than the 1-4 flowered scape. Flowers in an umbel. The divisions of the peri- anth yellow within and hairy and greenish without. Meadows and open woods. IRIDACEAE (Iris Family) Herbs, with vertical 2-ranked leaves, and conspicuous perfect flowers, arising from a spathe of 2 or more leaves or bracts. IRIS Branches of the style or the stigmas opposite the anthers. Sepals spreading or recurved. Petals spreading or erect. Stig- mas petal-like. {Iris, the rainbow.) I. versicolor. Blue Flag. Stems leafy and rather tall, arising from thickened rootstocks. Flowers violet-blue, variegated with green, yellow, or white, and purple-veined. Stems stout angled on one side, dm. high. Leaves sword-shaped, glaucous. Petals flat, half as long as the sepals. Style-branches with slightly over- lapping petaloid lobes. Wet places. May to July. SISYRINCHIUM Branches of the style alternate with the anthers. Flowers regular. Root fibrous. Filaments united. Stigmas thread-like. Sepals and petals alike, spreading. Low slender perennials with grass-like leaves, 2-edged stems and um- bel-clustered small flowers coming from a usually 2-leaved spathe. S. angustifolium. Blue-eyed Grass. Spathe solitary. The plant stiff, erect or ascending, and glaucous, 1-5 dm. high. The simple stems distinctly winged. Spathes Iris versicolor, Blue Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cowles, Henry Chandler, 1869-1939; Coulter, John G. (John Gaylord), b. 1876. joint author. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American Book Company
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