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Xyris

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Xyris'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​x/xyris.html. 1828.