BLUE-EYED GRASSES. 451 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. Lee County (Baker §° Farle). Mobile County, 
April, 1899 (farle). 
Specimens from Mobile and Mississippi ‘‘are aberrant and may represent yet 
another species. ” 
Type locality: “Western North Carolina and central South Carolina to Georgia, 
Alabama, and Mississippi.” 
Type in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 
Sisyrinchium scoparium Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 26: 227. 1899. 
From 6 to 20 inches high, in close tufts from a fibrillous base and a contracted 
rootstock with coarse fibrous roots. Stem, like the leaves, very narrow and smooth; 
the striate wing margins roughish on the ‘edges wbove; leaves erect, very slender, 
generally shor ter than the stv ms; inflorescence somewhat flabellately short- “branched 
from the two (sometimes one) nodes bearing one or two slender, short peduneles; 
bracteal leaf long, slender; bracts strongly striate, acuminate, subequal, tips finally 
spreading; flowers 6 to 11, violet blue. “April. 
Louisianian area. Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Mobile County, March (/arle). 
Type locality: ‘“‘Coast of Mississippi. Biloxi, April 27, 1898, C.F. Baker.” 
Sisyrinchium fuscatum Bull. Torr. Club, 26: 225. 1899, 
In tufts 8 to 20 inches high, from rather stout rootstocks with clustering fibrous 
roots. Stem long, slender, “erect, narrow, the edges of the narrow wing minute ly 
denticulate; leaves narrow, slender, shorter than the stem, firm, acute or subterete 
at the apex, “practeal leaves short, attenuated above, surpassed by the two closely 
approximate, erect, slender peduneles 1 to 2 inches long; bracts almost equal, 
striate, cuspidate, acuminate; flowers 3 to 8 on more or less exserted erect pedicels, 
April. 
Louisianian area. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Mobile and Escambia counties, April (C. 1". Baker), 
Type locality: ‘*‘ Western Florida to Mississippi.” 
Herb. Biol. Surv., Auburn, 
Sisyrinchium rosulatum Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 26: 228, 1899. 
Prostrate or ascending, from rosulate tufts; roots short-branched, woody, with 
fibrillous rootlets. In the smaller tufts stem short, from under 4 to 15 inches 
long; in stouter plants from 6 to 8 inches long, slender, subterete, narrowly mar- 
gined with serrulate edges; basal leaves from 1 to 3 inches long, narrow, the 
broadened base hyaline-margined, more or less attenuate toward the acute apex 
denticulate-serrulate; stem leaves much shorter than the peduncles, flat-she athing; 
peduncles slender, 1 to 4 inches long, the outer bracts more attenuate and some- 
what larger; flowers of a reddish purple or wine color. April. 
Louisianian area, South Carolina. 
ALABAMA: Dry open places, borders of paths and pastures, 
“Very distinct from any of our Eastern North American species, having its aftin- 
ity with certain Sonth American forms, and a Central American and Mexican 
species.” 
Type locality: “Dry open places in sandy soil, coast of South Carolina and 
Alabama.”’ 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sisyrinchium albidum Raf. Atlant. Journ. 17. 1832. 
Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 26: 346, 
Glaucous or glaucescent; stem from 8 to 18 inches high, leaves about half the 
length of the stem, ;', to 4 inch wide, acute, smooth-edged or serrulate above; 
stem flat, wings thin, usually broader than the stem proper, smooth or serrulate on 
the edges; spathe terminal, single with unequal bracts, the primordial 1 to 24 
inches long, more than twice as long as the inner bract, foliaceous, attenuate, and 
mostly acute; flowers often as many as nine in the spathe, petals white to pale 
violet; capsule globose, depressed, seed umbilicate pitted. (Condensed from 
Bicknell.) 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area, From Kentucky to Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, 
and Missouri; south to Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Lower hills. Tuscaloosa County (Dr. L.A, Smith). Rare. 
Type locality (Bicknell): West Kentucky, 
Herb. Geol. Surv. 
