. 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. Genus 4. IRIS FAMILY. 7. Sisyrinchium graminoides Bicknell. Stout Blue-eyed Grass. Fig. 1349. Sisyrinchium anceps S. Wats, in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 515. 1890. Not Cav. S. graminoides Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club 23: 133. 1896. 5. gramineum Curtis, Bot. Mag. pi. 464. 1789. Not Lam. Rather light green, somewhat glaucous; stem broadly 2-winged, stout, erect, or recli
. 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. Genus 4. IRIS FAMILY. 7. Sisyrinchium graminoides Bicknell. Stout Blue-eyed Grass. Fig. 1349. Sisyrinchium anceps S. Wats, in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 515. 1890. Not Cav. S. graminoides Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club 23: 133. 1896. 5. gramineum Curtis, Bot. Mag. pi. 464. 1789. Not Lam. Rather light green, somewhat glaucous; stem broadly 2-winged, stout, erect, or reclining, 8-18' tall, usually terminating in two unequal branches subtended by a conspicuous grassy leaf. Basal leaves equalling or shorter than the stem, i"-3" wide; often lax and grass-like; edges of stems and leaves usually perceptibly rough-serrulate; bracts 1' long or less, green, nearly or quite equal but the outer one occasionally prolonged; umbels 2-4-flowered; pedi- cels filiform, 8"-l2" long, exceeding the bracts, finally often spreading or recurved; flowers 6"-o" broad; petals sparsely pubescent on outer surface; capsule subglobose, 2i"-3" in diameter when mature; seeds black, globose, about i"-i" in diameter, pitted. In grassy places, in moist or dry soil, sometimes in woods, Nova Scotia to Florida, Minnesota, Arkansas and Texas. Santo Domingo. Plant dark in drying. Pepper-grass. 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, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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