450 I'l.ANI' MKK OF ALAMAMA. 



GEMMINGIA I'lilir. I'.iimii. I'l. llorl. Ilrlinst. 17ri<). 



(1!i:lam. ANi>.\ Adaiis. I'aiii. I'l. 2 :<;(). 17(i:?.) 

 (r.MCKAN I IMS K('r-(J:nvl. in Koeii. A SiniH, Aim. Hot. 1 : -111. 1S()5.) 



Gemmiugia chinensis ( L. ) Kuntze, K'ov. (icn. I'l. 2 :7(tl. 1S!M. 



/.(Id c/ii/K-HxiN 1-. Sj). I'l. 1 : :{l>. IT."):?. 



rardaiilliitx chinennin Ker-(Ja\vl. in Ktxm. A: Sims, Ann. Itnt. 1 : L'lti. |K()5. 



nclamcinihi chinensis (L.) DC. Ked. Lil. 3: ^ /.'/. 1S07. 



(iray. Man. id. (!, 515. 



("arolinian an-a. liitrixluccd from China, natiiralizeil. Mar\ land, Missouri, South 

 Atlantic Stat»?s. 



Alabama: Tennessee Valley to Coast Pine hclt. HoadHides, waste jdaces. .Jackson 

 County, Scottsboro. Jefferson County. Choctaw County, Bladon. Flowers oranj^e, 

 8j»ott<d with crimson. .Inly; not common. 



Type locality: "Ilah.in India." 



Herb. Geol Snrv. Herb. Molir. 



SISYRINCHIUM L. Sp. I'l. 2 :;»54. 17.">S.' Umk-kykd Crass. 



I'eronnial herbs, about DO species, all American. From the Atlantic coast to 

 southern Chile. Mexico to South America (mostly tro])ical ), about 50 species; I'nited 

 States and llritish North America. 40; Kasteru United States and Canada, 11 or IL!; 

 Southern States to Texas, IS; Western, 10. 



Sisyrinchium gramiuoides HicknoU. Bull. Torr. Clul). 23 : 133, t. .^6S. 



Stout Bluk-kykd (;kas.s. 



Sisi/rinchiinn (/raminfum Curti.s, Rot. Mag. /. 464. 1799. Not Lam. 

 S. anccps Wats, in Cray, Man. ed. (i. 515. 1800. Not Cavanilles. 

 S. hermudianiim of American authors, not Linnaeus. 

 Carolinian area. New .Jersey to Flnriila. west to southern Indiana. 

 Alabama: Lower Pineregiou. Coast plain. In grassy pine woods. Moliile County, 

 Flowers cerulean blue. April, May; not rare. 



Tyjie locality of <S'. gramineiim Curtis: "'A native of Virginia.'' 

 Herb. Gcol. Siirv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sisyrinchium coryinbosum Kicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 26 : 218. 1899. 



From 1 to Ik feet high from an ascending rootstock crowded with coarse (not 

 fibrinous) rootlets. Stem llat, narrowly wing-margined, smooth-edged ; inflorescence 

 fastigiate, subcorymbosely branched above; branches 3 to 6 inches long; leaves 

 rigid, erect, often surpassing the first internode of the stem, slightly ciliolate toward 

 the acute apex; lowest bracteal leaf erect; bracts nearly equal, acute, carinate 

 at the base with hyaline edges; flowers numerous, sky-blue, on slender pedicels 

 exceeding the bracts. April, May. 



Readily distinguished by its branches, subcorymbosc^ inflorescence, and long, stiff, 

 erect leaves. 



Louisianian area. Eastern Florida. 



Alabama: Coast plain. Damp, grassy banks. Mobile ('ounty, frecjuent. "Speci- 

 mens from Mobile present apparently a reduced form of the type, more slender and 

 less branched, with elongated bracteal leaf." 



Type locality : ''Florida: ' Fine barrens near .Jacksonville,' A. H. Curtiss. * ^ * 

 Alab.'ima: Mobile, Dr. Chas. Mohr.' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sisyrinchium carolinianum Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club. 26 : 221. 1899. 



In loose tufts, fibrous-coated at the base, from an astxnding or erect rootstock 

 with ( lustered and coa>sely fibrous roots. Stem erect, slender, with two or three 

 nofles, about one-eighth inch wide, broadly margined with serrulate edges; leaves 

 freciuently much shorter than the stem, rather thin, erect, i to :t inch wide, distinctly 

 serrulate; nodes of the stem with 2 or 3 long peduncles subtended by a foliaceous 

 bracteal leaf; bracts subequal, attenuate toward the apex or obtuse, mucronulate; 

 flowers 3 to 8 on slightly exserted pedicels, violet blue. April. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Western North Carolina, South Carolina, and 

 from Georgia to Mississippi. 



' E. P. Bicknell, The blue-eyed grasses of the Eastern United States, Boll. Torr. 

 lub, vol. 2.3, p)). 130 to 136. 1896. Same author, Studies in Sisyrinchium, op. cit., vol. 



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26, pp. 217 to 231. 1899. 



