1923] Brackett,—American Species of Hypoxis 127 
varieties. The broad-leaved plant distinguished as H. grandis 
Pollard from the southern states is often found north to New York 
and New England while the narrowest-leaved phase, H. carolinensis 
Michx., occurs westward to.Manitoba, Minnesota, Iowa and Okla- 
homa. The seed ordinarily has very sharp murications but often 
the northern plant has the murications broader and less acute than 
usual thus closely connecting the typical plant with the variety. 
Since H. hirsuta is so very common and the various herbaria contain 
hundreds of sheets, only a few specimens, with seeds unless otherwise 
stated, and their duplicates at the limits of the ranges, as shown by the 
herbarium material, are cited here. 
New Hampsuire: Pelham, Hillsboro County, Clarence H. Knowlton 
(hb. Gray). MaAssACHUSETTS: swamp, Falmouth, Barnstable County, 
Clarence H. Knowlton (hb. Phil. Acad., hb. Gray). CONNECTICUT: 
Bridgeport, E. H. Eames, no. 1 (hb. Gray). New York: Long 
Island, H. von Schrenk (hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.). New JERSEY: between 
Tuckerton and Atsion, C. F. Saunders & W. N. Clute (hb. Phil. 
Acad.) DELAWARE: dry soil, Greenbank, A. Commons (hb. Mo. 
Bot. Gard.). MarYLanD: Baltimore County, John Donnell Smith 
(hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). Vircinia: Bay Bank, Hampton, D. Harrison 
(hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.) SovrH CAROLINA: Newry, Oconee County, 
H. D. House (hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.). GEORGIA: Stone Mountain, 
H. Eggert (hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.). Ara4BAMa: Charles L. Pollard & 
William R. Maxon, no. 72 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). MISSISSIPPI: 
dry soil, Meridian, Lauderdale County, Biltmore Herb., no. 529* (hb. 
U.S. Nat. Mus.). Texas: Dallas, damp sands, Reverchon, no. 2760 
(hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.). Okranowa: Page, O. W. Blakley, no. 1408 
(hb. Mo. Bot. Gard., hb. Gray. hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.) and no. 3433. 
(hb. Mo. Bot. Gard., hb. Gray). Coronapo: Denver, Schneck, with- 
out seeds (hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.) NEBRASKA: meadow, Platte 
Islands, Kearney, Ernest R. Holmes (hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Sour 
Dakota Brookings, Thos. A. Williams (hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.). Norv 
Dakota: Butte, Benson County, Dr. J. Lunell (hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
ASSINIBOIA: near Moose Mt. Creek, meadows and open woods, 
Jas. M. Macoun (hb. Gray). MawrronBa: Stony Mt., John Macoun, 
. no. 13799 (hb. Gray). 
2a. Var. leptocarpa (Engelmann & Gray), n. comb. Leaves very 
thin and flaccid, often quite glabrous, 3.5-12 mm. broad, 2-8 dm. 
long; peduncles very slender and lax, mostly 1-3(rarely 4)-flowered ; 
| perianth-segments 5-8 mm. long; mature capsules 4-10 mm. long. 
slightly pubescent to glabrate; seeds black, with bluntish murications. 
—H. erecta, var. leptocarpa Engelmann & Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. 
Hist. v. 239 (1845). H. leptocarpa Engelmann in Engelmann & 
Gray, l. c. (1845). H. Curtissit Rose in Small Fl. S. E. U. S. 287 and 
