222 BicKNKLL : Studies in Sisvrinchium 



more or less diverging peduncles ; prolongation of stem beyond 

 the first node commonly 5-7 cm. long and somewhat outcurved ; 

 peduncles 4-8 cm. long, often ciliolate-dcnticulate : spathes green 

 or sometimes purplish, as a rule not at all deflected, 15-20 mm. 

 long, the bracts sub-equal or either one slightly the longer, vary- 

 ing from herbaceous-attenuate to scarious-obtuse and mucronulate ; 

 interior scales about half the length of the bracts : flowers ^-8, on 

 very delicate slightly cxserted, loosely erect pedicels ; perianth very 

 delicate, pale violet-bhie, 8-10 mm, long; stamineal column 4-5 

 mm. long : fruit not seen. 



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Western North Carolina and central South Carolina to Geor- 

 gia, Alabama and Mississippi. Beginning to flower in the Caro- 

 Unas in early May, at its southern limit a month earlier. 



North Carolina : near Columbus, Polk Co.", E. C. Townsend. 



South Carolina : Anderson ville, Anderson Co., Professor 

 Lewis R. Gibbes, 1886. Type, in Herbarium N. Y. Botanical 

 Garden ; near Hamburg, Gibbes ; Camden. 



Georgia : Augusta, A. Cuthbert ; Stone Mountain, Dr. Small. 



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Alabama: Auburn, F. S. Earle and C. F. Baker; Mobile, 

 Dr. Chas. Mohr, 



Mississippi : E. Hilgard. 



Appearing somewhat intermediate betw^een S.grajnuioidcs Bick- 



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nell and S, Atlanticuui Bicknell, but perfectly distinct from both. 

 Dr. Mohr's specimens from Mobile and those from Mississippi 

 are aberrant and may represent yet another species. 



Sisyrinchium Floridanum 



Tufts densely fibrillose at base, roots clustered, slender and 

 wiry, stems and leaves 25-40 cm. high, pale dull green and 

 glaucescent, not discoloring in drying, minutely cry.stalline-punc- 

 ticulate ; leaves numerous, equaling tlic stems or shorter, stiffly 

 erect or ascending, becoming flexuous in withering, mostly 2-3 

 mm. wide, rarely 4 mm,, closely and firmly striate, attenuate to the 

 terete or sub-terete slender-pointed apex, the edges smooth ; 

 stems sub-terete with narrow but firm wing-margins, 2-3 mm. 

 wide, the edges smooth, bearing near the top a slender, erect 

 bracteal leaf, shorter than the 2-3 usually erect peduncles, some- 

 times erectly prolonged ^beyond the node and bearing a second 

 cluster of three shorter peduncles ; peduncles vcr}- slender, mostly 

 less than .5 mm. wide, narrowly margined, smooth or sometimes 

 obscurely denticulate, subequal, or usually so, 5-10 cm. long, 

 transversely constricted below^ the spathc : spathes green or 



