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below by the ascending wings of the stem ; bracts thin, glabrous, 

 delicately nerved, the outer one on simple stems prolonged beyond 

 the inner 8-40 mm. and sometimes three times its length, in 

 pedunculate spathes often but little prolonged, 2-6 cm. long, ob- 

 scurely or very narrowly hyaline-margined, the edges not united 

 below ; inner bract narrow, 1 5-20 mm. long, narrowly hyaline- 

 margined, mostly attenuate and cuspidate-acute, rarely scarious-ob- 

 tuse and mucronulate ; interior scales acuminate, brownish-tinged, 



J — J ^. ^ ^.. ^..,j^^^, 



about ^ the length of the inner bract: flowers 5-6, pale blue; 



perianth 8-14 mm. long; stamineal-column 4-5 mm. high : capsules 

 on slenderly exsertcd and flexuously spreading pedicels 17-25 mm. 

 In length, brown, broadly subglobose, or obovoid, 4 mm. high. 



Southern New Jersey to North Carolina, flowering in May and 

 early June. 



New Jersey : Gloucester Co., June i, 1892, B. Heritage, Herb. 

 Phil. Bot. Club. , 



Pennsylvania : Philadelphia, A. B. Monoy, Herb. Mo. Bot. 

 Gard. 



District of Columbia: W. M. Canby, U. S. Nat. Herb. 



North Carolina: Buncombe Co., Thos. Hogg, May, 1886, 

 Herb. Columbia Univ.; G. McCarthy, May, 1888, U. S. Nat. Herb.; 

 May 8, 1897, Biltmore Herb.; Wake Co., May, 1896, W. W. 

 Ashe, Herb. W. W. A.; Henderson Co., Mrs. Schoolbred, 1857, 



* 



Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.; also tw^o sheets without record in Herb. 

 Mo. Bot. Gard., one *'ex herb. Bernhardi." 



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A perplexing plant appearing about intermediate between S. 

 grannnoidiS and S, uiucroiatiun, yet not to be correlated with either 

 one, although in its most divergent forms, showing a near approach 

 to both. The more branched forms, which are nearest to S, 

 graniinoidcs differ in narrower and more attenuate leaves and 

 purple spathes, and usually also develop many simple stems bear- 

 ing spathes with much prolonged outer bracts ; the branches when 

 present are mostly shorter and more slender than in S, granniwidcs 

 and, like the younger leaves, may be roughened on the sides; the 

 margins of the stem and leaves are also usually more definitely 

 serrulate than In .9. graviinoidcs, ' 



The opposite form in which the stems may be all simple closely 

 simulates ^. inncronatuiu but dries dark and has thinner, more 



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broadly winged stem and larger darker capsules on flexuously 

 spreading pedicels as in .S. graviiiioidcs, ' 



