. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Xyris flexuosa var. pusilla A. Gray 1867. Not X. pusilla R. Br. 1810. Xyris montana H. Ries, Bull. Torr. Club ig : 38 2. Xyris montana H. Ries. Northern Yellow- eyed Grass. Fig. 1133. Man. Ed. 5, 548. 1892. Scapes very slender, straight or slightly twisted, 2-edged above, 2'-i2' tall, not bulbous-thickened at the base. Leaves narrowly linear, i'-6' long, ¥'-i&q
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Xyris flexuosa var. pusilla A. Gray 1867. Not X. pusilla R. Br. 1810. Xyris montana H. Ries, Bull. Torr. Club ig : 38 2. Xyris montana H. Ries. Northern Yellow- eyed Grass. Fig. 1133. Man. Ed. 5, 548. 1892. Scapes very slender, straight or slightly twisted, 2-edged above, 2'-i2' tall, not bulbous-thickened at the base. Leaves narrowly linear, i'-6' long, ¥'-i" wide, not at all twisted or but very slightly so; head ovoid, acute during anthesis, or narrowly subacute, ii"-3" long; bracts oval or obovate, rounded and finely lacerate at the apex; lateral sepals linear, ir- regularly erose on the winged keel near the apex, about as long as the bracts. In bogs, Nova Scotia to Ontario and Michigan, south to the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. July-Aug. 3. Xyris caroliniana Walt. Carolina Yellow- eyed Grass. Fig. 1134. Xyris caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 69. 1788. Xyris Jupacai Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 23. 1803. Scapes mostly slender, straight or somewhat twisted, 2-edged above, i°-2° tall, not thickened at the base. Leaves linear, flat, 4-15' long, i"-g" wide; head broadly ovoid, blunt, 4"-8" long; scales oval or slightly obovate, entire or somewhat lacerate; lateral sepals linear, about as long as the bracts, the narrowly winged keel serrate only above the middle. In swamps and bogs, Maine and Massachusetts to Pennsylvania, Florida and Louisiana, mostly near the coast. Young states of this plant may be mistaken for X. montana. 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 Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison,
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