1915 



* ^.lIC! 



SISYRiNCHIUM graminif61ium, /3. pumilum. 

 Dwarf Grass-leaved Sisyrinchium. 



MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. iRiDACEiE. 



SISYRINCHIUM.— Suprd, vol. \3.fol. 1067. 



S. graminifolium. Supra l. c. 



/3. pumilum; scapo submonostachyo foliis breviorc, pilis ovarii longissiinis, 

 floribus oculatis. 



A beautiful little perennial, found on mountains near 

 Valparaiso and Conception, where it flowers in October. I 

 have wild specimens both from Mr. Macrae and Mr. Bridges. 

 It is a much more attractive plant than the other variety 

 figured at fol. 1067 of this work, because of the deep purple 

 spots at the base of the divisions of its flower, and might be 

 almost considered a different species, but there do not appear 

 to be any characters to distinguish it with certainty. 



For the specimens from which the figure was taken I am 

 indebted to Robert Mangles, Esq. with whom the plant 

 flowered in May last. It will probably be treated as a 

 greenhouse plant, but it is undoubtedly one of those species 

 which would succeed better in a situation protected from 

 frost and damp in winter, but without any artificial heat. 

 Considering how very large a number of beautiful plants we 

 have that would grow in all their native beauty under such 

 circumstances, it is not a little remarkable that none of the 

 many wealthy cultivators of flowers should yet have thought 

 of constructing moveable glass-houses, that should be only 



* Sto-yptyxtoi/ is an ohl Greek name for the Iris Sisyrinchium. 



