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Curtis (Bot. Mag. p/. 464. 1799), who gives an excellent illustration 
of our exact plant naming it S. gramineum. This name, however, 
as we have seen, was preoccupied through its use by Lamarck. 
The curious fact thus develops that this plant appears never to 
have been described under a name not a synonym of S. angusti- 
Jolium. It may now, therefore be called S. gramnoides. 
y Our eastern Species of Blue-Eyed Grass. 
SISYRINCHIUM GRAMINOIDES nom. nov. 
~ S. gramineum Curtis, Bot. Mag. pl. 464. 1799. Not S. grami- 
neum Lam. Encyc. 1: 408. 1783. 
S. Bermudianum of American authors, not Linnaeus, 
S. anceps S. Watson in A. Gray’s Manual, Ed. 6, 515. Not 
Cavanilles. 
Specific Characters: Green or subglaucous, drying dark; stem 
bifurcate, winged; leaves thin; stem and leaves with scabrous 
edges, 1’’-3’’ wide; bracts of spathe subequal, acuminate ; floral- 
scales brownish-tinged ; capsule large, 114’"-3’’ wide; seeds 14” or 
more in diameter, pitted. 
Commonly over 1° high (6’-2°); green or somewhat glaucous, 
usually drying dark. Stems wing-flattened, mostly 11%4’’-2” wide 
(1’’-3’’), the wing-margins perceptibly broadened upward from base 
totop. Leaves thin and grass-like,as broad as the stem and from 
one-half to three-quarters its length, or rarely equalling it, minutely 
serrulate or denticulate on the edges, as are the stem and the 
branches, or usually so. Stem dividing above or from about the 
middle into two (exceptionally three or four) branches 2’—8’ long, 
subtended by a conspicuous grass-like leaf which is slightly nar- 
rowed above the compressed-clasping base and broadened higher 
up, as are the larger basal leaves. Branches winged, mostly sub- _ 
erect and unequal, but variable, usually the inner one elongated _ 
and erect, the outer one about half its length, often curved, 
broader, sometimes over 1’ wide with its margins passing un- 
interruptedly into the continuous spathe; rarely the outer branch 
may be the longer, or the two may be subequal ; occasionally the _ 
outer one divides into two peduncles subtended by a leafy bract. _ 
Not infrequently simple and leafless scapes rise among the nor- 
mally branched ones, simulating the stem of S. angustifolium. 
Bracts of spathe usually green and herbaceous (sometimes pur- 
plish), compressed, usually serrulate-scabrous on the keel, the 
outer one with scarious margins usually only below the middle, ‘. 
subequal (occasionally the outer one is sowewhat elongated, es- : 
