246 Bicknell : Studies in Sisyrinchium 



ally seen at Nanaimo and on the islands in the Gulf of Georgia" 



[J. M.J. 



Vancouver Island: Comox, June 21, 1893, meadows, John 



Macoun. 



Named in honor of Professor Macoun. 



A handsome species, having the largest and most richly-col- 

 ored flowers of any simple-stemmed species known to me. It is 

 perhaps most nearly related to wS. segetum, of Washington, but is 

 much taller and larger, though relatively more slender, and dif- 

 fers notably from this, as well as from the stouter and paler- 

 flowered vS. Idahoense, in the greatly prolonged outer bract. Two 

 specimens from Vancouver which appear to be reduced forms of 

 this species are smaller flowered than the type with shorter bracts, 

 the outer one much less elongated, and are suggestive of 5. 

 segetnm or slender forms of S. Idahoense, although the type is 

 clearly distinct from either. Professor Macoun writes further : 

 "You are quite right in thinking this plant a striking species. 

 Indeed so large were its flowers that I thought it was 5. grandi- 

 florum when I saw it first." 



