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as a brother, Dr. Walter Temple Goodale, Saco, Maine. The funeral 
services were held at St. John’s Memorial Chapel, April 14, 1923, 
Dean Washburn of the Episcopal Theological School officiating. The 
pall-bearers were President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot, President A. 
Lawrence Lowell, Dr. Henry P. Walcott, Professor Oakes Ames, 
Edwin Abbott, Samuel Henshaw, Walter Deane, H. Clifford Galla- 
gher, Dr. Robert T. Jackson, Professor W. J. V. Osterhout, Pro- 
fessor Roland Thaxter. The remains were taken to Saco, Maine, 
there at last to rest with the long family associations. 
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE GRAY HERBARIUM OF 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
New SEniES.—No. LXIX. 
A. BRACKETT. 
I. REVISION OF THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF HYPOXIS. 
Tue genus Hypoxis occurs mostly in the southern hemisphere, 
extending into the northern hemisphere in subtropical Asia and by 
way of Mexico and the Antilles to the Atlantic slope of North America. 
All of our species have corms accompanied by somewhat fleshy root- 
fibers. They are herbs with grass-like, linear-lanceolate to nearly 
filiform and generally pilose leaves. The scapes are simple, one- to 
several-flowered. The peduncles are in general slightly pilose espe- 
cially above, often glabrescent below. The pedicels are generally 
quite short; the bracts (when present) are setaceous and generally 
shorter than the pedicels. The ovary and capsule, commonly rather 
pilose when young, become nearly glabrous at maturity. The 
perianth-segments are narrowly elliptic, glabrous, yellow or white 
within, green and pilose without. The capsule is subglobose to 
subcylindrie, generally three-lobed. The anthers of the American 
species are usually versatile but in one species, H. sessilis L., they are 
basi-fixed. The seeds are small, dark-colored, subglobose, muricate, 
bearing a beak and rostrate hilum. 
In his Synopsis of Hypoxidaceae, Baker! recognized only three 
species of Hypoxis in all America, H. juncea Smith, H. erecta L. 
= H. hirsuta (L.) Coville and H. decumbens L. These were placed 
` 3. Q. Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 93-126 (1878). 
