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the perianth 7-10 mm. long, the segments not usually emarginate 

 but abruptly contracted into the shor.t-aristulate tip : stamineal col- 

 umn 4-5 mm. long; pedicels slender, in fruit 1.5-2.5 mm. long, 

 ascending or somewhat spreading from about midway in the 

 spathe : capsules thin-walled, subglobose, transversely corrugate 

 at maturity, 4-5 mm. high : seeds not fully mature, black, finely 

 rugulose pitted, asymetrically obovoid or curved, angled. 



Washington, Skamania Co., no." 2233, W. N. Suksdorf, Au- 

 gust 31, 1893. '• Borders of meadows 2000-3000 ft. altitude." In 



full flower and fruit. 



As remarked by Professor Greene in his publication of this 

 species the fitness of the name given by Suksdorf is not evident. 

 I have examined three sheets of the original collection mounting 

 several good sized tufts as well as separate specimens. The 

 printed label reads "stems sometimes rooting at the nodes," but 

 no evidence of such a character is shown by the specimens, which 

 are simple-stemmed and erect, bearing a node, when at all, only 



at the top. 



The plant is clearly an excellent species. Its very narrow 



bracts alone, especially the narrowly foliaccous inner one, give it an 

 aspect quite different from that of an}- other species known to me 

 except perhaps .S". alpcstrc, which is amply different in other re- 

 spects. In the nearest approach to this character of the inner 

 bract ever seen in S. angustifolinin the herbaceous prolongation is 

 more or less abruptly attenuate, quite in contrast with the linear- 

 prolonged and more foliaccous condition characteristic of 5. sar- 

 Dientosiiiii. An approach to this condition, but on a larger scale, 

 is sometimes seen in S. IdaJiocnsc and 5. littorale. S. sarincnto- 

 suiii differs further from .S". aucrnstifoliinn in slender, often cur\'ed 



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stems with the wings not widened into the base of the spathe, 

 which is frequently deflected and much narrower, fewer smaller 

 flowers on more slender and spreading pedicels, the segments of 



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the perianth not emarginate, smaller fruit. 



SiSYRiNX-iiiUM LiTTOR.^LE Greene, Pittouia, 4 : 33. 17 Mr. 1899. 



Apparently little or not at all tufted, .stout, 15-35 cm. or more 

 tall, or sometimes much lower and depauperate, apparently not 

 glaucous, or but slightly so, dull green, turning dark in drying : 

 roots fibrous, slender, mostly spreading from a strong woody 

 axis : leaves 2-4 mm. wide, half the height of the stem or longer, 



