224 Bicknell: Studies in Sisvkinxhium 



low pine land region, July 24, 1894, in flower and matnre fruit; 

 and Nash's no. 1914, collected at Eustis, June 11, 1895, in full 



flower and with very youn^ fruit. 



So near to S. Floridaiiuui that I should scarcely have thought 

 of lookhig for specific differences between the two plants but for 

 the wide difference in their flowering periods as shown by the 

 labels. Mr. Nash is satisfied that the plants arc distinct and recalls 

 that in the field he regarded the smaller plant of low pine land as 

 certainly different from the similar species collected in the same 

 region, but in high pine land four months earlier in the season. 



Sisyrinchium rufipes 



Early flowering stage : Thinly tufted from ascending rootstocks, 

 the old leaves disintegrating to form a loose coating of bright 

 rufous-red fibers about the base of the plant. Stem and leaves 

 rather bright pale green and glaucescent partly turning a dull 

 brownish green ; leaves very slender, about the height of the stem, 

 straight and erect but becoming widely flcxuous in withering, 

 1-1.25 mm. wide, slenderly attenuate, more or less granular- 

 scabrous between the close nerves, the margins finely sharp-serru- 

 late ; stems erect, about i mm. wide, narrowly margined, the edges 

 closely appresscd ciliolate-serrulate ; bracteal leaf slender and erect, 

 subtending two short subcrect or outcurved peduncles and some- 

 times also a branch bearing a bracteal leaf and two short-pedunclcd 

 spathes ; branches and peduncles hirsutulous-cillolate on the edges 

 and often roughened with minute pohits on the sides : spathes 

 short, about 12 mm. long, the bracts somewhat divergent, sharp- 

 acuminate or the inner one scarious-obtuse and apiculate, the 

 outer one hyaline margined below and slightly sheathing at the 

 base : flowers 2-5, small, blue, on delicate slenderly cxserted pedi- 

 cels 15-17 cm. long; perianth about 8 mm. long; stamincal col- 

 umn 4 mm. high, 



Georgia: Augusta, A. Cuthbcrt, *'dry sand hills/' March 



24th. In herbarium J. K. Small. 



Imperfect specimens from Summcrville, South Carolina, col- 

 lected by Professor Lewis R. Gibbes, April 9, 1850, just in 'flower^ 

 are probably to be referred here. They are more slender than the 

 type with flexuous stems and leaves, and are nearly smooth 

 throughout, but with the bracts minutely granular-scabrous. 



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In Herb. N. Y. Botanical Garden. 



A specimen in Herb. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 220, 346, wet pine 



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