Bicknell: Studiks in Sisyrinchium t)ll 



firmer and strictly erect, 1-3 mm. or even 4 mm. wide, tapering 

 and cuspidate, acute, distinctly few-nerved with famter nerves m 

 the very wide interspaces, the edges, as are those of the stem, very 

 smooth or, sometimes, ciliolate-serrulate ; stem 1-3.5 mm. wide, 

 loosely erect, weak and very flat mostly with broad thm wmgs 

 nerved like the leaves ; nodes one or two, when two the lower one 

 sometimes below the middle of the stem ; bracteal leaves erect, 

 usually long and narrow and surpassing the peduncles but some- 

 times much shorter ; peduncles one or two, seldom three, diverg- 

 ing subequal or very unequal, 3-12 cm. long, slender, but Hat and 

 wim-margined, mostly under i mm. wide, sometmies nearly fili- 

 form the edges smooth to ciliolate-denticulate : spathes green, 

 often abruptly deflected, small and narrow, not seldom scarcely 

 broader than the peduncle ; bracts membranous, weakly or ob- 

 scurely few-nerved, slenderly attenuate and very acute, or some- 

 times the inner one apiculate from a somewhat scarious 

 apex the outer one usually more or less prolonged ; outer bract 

 i2-2q mm. long, mostly surpassing the inner one 2-10 mm., but 

 sometimes subequal with it, slenderly attenuate, the margms 

 narrowly white-hyaline, united-clasping for 2-5 mm. at base: mner 

 bract uslially closely appressed, under 1.5 mm. long : mtenor 

 scales half the length of the spathes or less, becommg brownish 

 tin-ed : flowers 3-5, violet-blue, distinctly fine-nerved, very small, 

 penanth 5-8 mm. long, stamlneal column 2.5-4 mm. high : cap- 

 sules dark, subglobose, very small, 1.5-3 mn^- ^'f'' «" ^'^''^'^'' 

 exserted iK^dlcels somewhat spreading above ; seeds only 2-3 m 

 each cell, globose, rough, only obscurely if at all umbilicate, very 

 small, about .75 mm. in diameter. 



Alabama and Georgia, In moist soil, flowering in May and June. 

 Ai-vn-VMA : Lee Co., Auburn, several collections by F. S. Earle, 

 C. F. Baker, and L. M. Underwood, 1896-99, in Herb. F. S. 

 Earle Ala Biol. Survey and Columbia University. 



GKORcrA: Floyd Co., Silver Creek, May 8, 1899, Biltmore 

 Herb.; Jefferson Co., Louisville, Hopkins, Herb. Miss. Bot. Card. 

 ' An interesting species in close relationship with S. gnimmouks, 

 but smaller, with generally much narrower stems and leaves, much 

 smaller flowers and capsules, and fewer smaller seeds ; the leaves 

 and stem are also thinner and softer and usually quite without ser- 

 rulate edges, the leaves more tapering-acute, the small spathes 

 relatively narrower and often or usually abruptly deflected, the 

 _bracts commonly more narrowly attenuate and unequal, the pedi- 

 ccls less exserted and flexuous. 



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