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Title: An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Stevens, George T. (George Thomas), 1832-1921
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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-Aug. 4. S. mucronatum, Miclix. Michauxs Blue-eyed Grass. Growingmore in tufts than the last; stem and leaves much more delicate andslender, from thread-like to 1/15 in. wide. Stems with very narrow wingson margins. Leaves often as long as flower stems. The outer long bractat the base of the umbel i to 2i in. long, often bright purple; the innerbract about 1 in. or less in length. Flowers deep violet-blue. Meadowsand fields, New .Jersey and westward. May-June. 5. S. intermedium, Bicknell. Intermediate Blue-eyed Grass. Grow-ing in tufts, stems 4 to 16 in. high, slender, simple or branched aboveinto two long flower stems. Leaves nearly 1/8 in. wide. Stem very flat,the wings very finely notched. Flower stem usually sliorter tlian tlie leafsituated just below the branching (2 to 3J in. long). Outer bract belowthe little umbel of flowers tapering to a very slender point, 1 to 2i in.long, usually purple. Flowers 2 to 6, pale blue. Soutiicrn New Jerseyand southward. May-June. IRIS FAMILY 145
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Plate 161. Sisyriiicliiiini angustifolium. 2. S. atlanticum. 3. Iris versicolor,4. Hypoxis hirsuta. 5. Aletris farinosa. 14G ORCHIDACEAE Order VII.—ORCHIDACEAE. Orchidaceous Plants Of this order there is, in our region, only one family. ORCHIDACEAE. Orchid Family Among the Monocotyledonous plants the orchid family is pe-culiar in being that in which the flowers are always irregular.The perianth is of two rows of flower leaves, an outer, the calyx,of 3 segments which are alike or very nearly so and an inner, thecorolla, also of 3 generally very nnequal parts. The two sidesegments are nearly alike, but the middle or upper one is unlikethe others and generally forms a lip, simple or fringed, or a boat-like pouch, and is often extended into a long spur. This uppersegment, by the twisting of the ovary or of the flower pedicelmay become the lower one. This upper lip differs from the othersegments, not only in form and size but it is often strikingly incontrast in its color. Of the stamens

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