22G Bickxell: Studies in Sisvr'ixchium 



■ Alabama : Flomaton, Escambia county, April 2^, 1898, C. F. 



Baker. 



Mississippi : Biloxi, Prof. S. jM. Tracy ; Ocean Springs, Miss 

 Skehan. 



• I find two sheets of this species in 'Herb. Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, " ex colL D. V. Dean," but without other record. 



mm flae-ellum 



Very slender and flexuous in thin tufts, not fibrose at the base, 

 the roots becoming rather coarsely fibrous ; pale dull green and 

 slightly glaucescent, darker in drying, 20-32 cm. high. Leaves 

 as long as the stems or nearly so, narrow and flexuous, 5-1.5 mm. 

 wide, distinctly rather fcw-striatc, smooth-edged or serrulate at 

 the attenuate acute apex : stems erect, usually more or less flex- 

 uous, and geniculate at the nodes, .75-1.5 mm. wide, narrowly wing- 

 margined, smooth-edged ; nodes one or two, remote, the lowest 

 about midway in the stem or higher, supporting a long leaf and 

 one or two long slender peduncles, the upper node bearing a 

 shorter leaf and two or three peduncles j peduncles very long and 

 slender, 5-12 cm. long, mostly .5 mm. wide, smooth-mar|ined, 

 subequal, approximate or slightly divergent : spathes often ab- 

 ruptly deflected, narrow, '15-20 mm. long, the bracts slightly 

 keeled to the apex, subequal or the inner one longer, the outer 

 one narrowly acuminate and sharp-pointed, hyaline-margined below 

 and clasping for 5-7 mm. at base ; the inner one often scarlous 



margined to the abruptly mucronulate apex ; interior scales much 



shorter than the bracts : flowers not well made out, of some shade 

 of blue and apparently of medium size : capsules 4-6 on erect 

 slightly exserted pedicels 18-20 mm. long, trilobate-subglobosc, 

 ret use and impressed at base, about 4 mm. high, drying brown, the 

 surface minutely rugulose : seeds globose, finely alveolate, i mm. 

 or more In diameter. 



South and West Florida: " Pine Key, Blodgett." In llerba- 

 rium of Columbia University. 



Manatee County, Dr. J. T. Rothrock ; "open glades," March 

 5, 1887; In flower and fruit. Specimens in herbarium of College 

 of Pharmacy, New York and Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Sisyrinchium Miamiense 



About 20 cm. or more high, growing In small erect tufts from 

 short descending rootstocks, the roots long, somewhat woody and 

 nearly simple. Plant apparently dull green and glaucescent, dry- 

 ing dark : leaves erect, about three quarters the height of the 



