1923] Brackett,—American Species of Hypoxis 137 
The following are referred to this species. LOCALITY UNKNOWN: 
Chapman, no. 3856, with seeds (hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.) NomrH 
CanoLINA: Wilmington, C. S. Williamson, without seeds (hb. Phil. 
Acad.). SovrH CAROLINA: sandy loam in open places, Summerville, 
B. L. Robinson, no. 176, without seeds (hb. Gray). FLorIDa: F. 
Rugel, 1842-1849, ex herb. Mus. Brit. no. 132, without seeds (hb. 
Mo. Bot. Gard.). . ALABAMA: ex herb. George Thurber, with seeds 
(hb. Gray); Gates, with seeds (hb. Phil. Acad.); Buckley, with seeds 
(hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Texas: Lindheimer, no. 187, without seeds 
(hb. Gray, hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.). Also two specimens from South 
Carolina. One was sent in a letter by M. A. Curtis, from Society 
Hill, Sept. 15, 1853, to Dr. Gray with the following remarks, "T 
send also an abortive Hypoxis now not uncommon here as a second 
growth of the season. Flower three cleft, white." The seeds of this 
plant have very little of the golden iridescent coloring but show a 
marked preponderance of a brilliant blue color. The other was sent 
by Miss Laura M. Bragg to Professor Fernald from Dackon, Berkeley 
Co., with the following field label, “In second growth . . . pine- 
land. Broom grass association. Coll . . . June 21, 1920." 
Both of the above specimens have longer leaves than the usual 
H. sessilis and the flowers are only three-cleft. 
7. H. BreviscaPa HBK. Corm subglobose 5-7 mm. thick, 
covered with dark brown, membranous sheaths disintegrating into 
tufts of fibers; leaves lanceolate, decidedly narrowed at the base, 
about 2 mm. broad, up to 1.2 dm. long, pilose; peduncles filiform, about 
3.5 em. long, 1-2-flowered; ovary and capsule pilose; perianth- 
segments narrowly elliptic, 3-4.5 mm. long; capsule subcylindric, 
5-7 mm. long; seeds about 0.8-1.1 mm. in diameter, black, covered 
with a brown exfoliating outer coat that is flecked with iridescent 
material.—Gen. et Sp. Pl. i. 286 (1815).—Plateaus in South America. 
H. breviscapa was reported by Humboldt, Bonpland and Kunth as 
coming from Brazil. The one sheet of herbarium material answering 
the description of this species, no. 1042, with seeds, Miguel Bang 
(hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.), came from Bolivia. It shows the leaves 
narrow at the base as the Brazilian plant is described, and all but one 
of the plants have a single flower to each peduncle. 
8. H. MICRANTHA Pollard. Corm subglobose to subcylindric, 4-12 
mm. thick, covered with the dark membranaceous bases of the old 
leaves rarely disintegrating into bristly fibers; leaves linear-lanceolate, 
1-6 mm. broad, 0.8-4 dm. long, pilose; peduncles pilose, 5-18 cm. 
long; ovary and capsule pilose; perianth-segments 3.5-15 mm. long, 
rather acute at the apex; capsule subglobose to subcylindrie, 4-9 
mm. long; seeds brown, covered with very numerous, minute, awl- 
shaped murications.—Pollard in Small, Fl. S. E. U. S. 287 and 1329 
(1903).—Southern United States and adjacent islands. The fol- 
