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pecially when thescape is simple); inner bract narrowly acuminate 
or acute, 6’-10” long. MHyaline floral scales narrow, becoming 
distinctly brownish-tinged. Divisions of perianth 4/’-5” long, 
11%4’’_2"’ wide, sparsely pubescent on outer surface. Young capsule 
pubescent as in our other species. Capsules usually 3 or 4 (ex- 
ceptionally more) subglobose, about 2’ long and broad (1 %4’”-3’), 
disposed to be spreading or even recurved on slender pedicels 8’’— 
12’’ long. Seeds .04—05 in. in diameter, black, globose, more or 
less pitted. (Plate 263.) 
Eastern States south from Massachusetts, but exact distribu- 
tion not well made out. 
Grassy places generally, preferably in damp soil; sometimes 
it occurs in shaded woods, where it is deep green and forms large 
separate tufts producing a profusion of finally prostrate stems. In 
drier, open situations it is erect and somewhat glaucous; among 
deep grass in low grounds the stems may be weak and ascending, 
and the tufted habit nearly or quite lost. 
Several specimens from coastwise localities from New Jersey 
southward agree in having three and four clustered branches, de- 
cidedly purplish spathes, narrow stem and narrow attenuate leaves. 
Specimens from Florida, which will doubtless prove to be sepa- 
rable, are coarser in habit with elongated narrowly attenuate, even 
flexuous leaves often exceeding the stem, short, clustered peduncles, 
the bracts of the spathe strongly white-margined, the inner bract 
commonly longer than the outer one, the hyaline floral scales long 
and often exerted beyond the bracts, 
¥ SISYRINCHIUM ATLANTICUM pn. sp. 
Specific Characters: Pale and glaucous, not drying dark; stem 
slender and wiry, branched, margined or narrowly winged; stem 
and leaves 1{’’-1’’ wide, very smooth, leaves rather stiff; bracts of 
spathe subequal; inner bract obtuse or truncate; floral scales 
silvery white; capules oblong 34-114’ wide; seeds 14(”—-1%4” in 
diameter, pitted or nearly smooth. 
Much slenderer ‘than S. graminoides, when growing with it 
mostly taller. Pale and glaucous, not drying dark; very smooth 
except the branches and tips of the leaves which are minutely 
“denticulate-scabrous. Stem often inclined or becoming prostrate, 
much longer than the leaves, 8’-2° high, slender and rather wiry, 
uniformly margined or narrowly winged, often subterete at base, 
usually less than 1’ wide, sometimes only 14’, dividing above into 
