BLUE-EYED GRASSES. 451 



Alabama: Metamorpliic hills. Lee County {Baker <('■ Earle). Mobile Conntv, 

 April, 1899 (Earle). 



Specimens from Mobile and Mississippi "are aberrant and may represent yet 

 another species. " 



Type locality: "Western North Carolina and central South Carolina to Georgia, 

 Alabama, and Mississippi." 



Type in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 



Sisyrinchium scoparium Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 26 : 227. 1899. 



From 6 to 20 inches bigh, in close tufts from a fibrillous base and a contracted 

 rootstock with coarse librous roots. Stem, like the leaves, very narrow and smooth ; 

 the striate wing margins roughish on the edges above; leaves erect, very slender, 

 generally shorter than the stems ; inflorescence somewhat llabellately short-brauclied 

 from the two (sometimes one) nodes bearing one or two slender, short peduncles; 

 bracteal leaf long, slender; bracts strongly striate, acuminate, subequal, tips finally 

 spreading; flowers G to 11, violet blue. April. 



Louisianian area. Mississippi. 



Alabama: Coast ]tlain. Mobile County, March (/i'arZp). 



Type locality: "Coast of Mississippi. Biloxi, April 27, 1S98, C. F. Baker." 



Sisyrinchium fuscatum Bull. Torr. Club, 26 : 225. 1899. 



In tufts 8 to 20 inches high, from rather stout rootstocks with clnstering fibrous 

 roots. Stem long, slender, erect, narrow, the edges of the narrow wing minutely 

 denticulate; leaves narrow, slender, shorter than the stem, firm, acute or subterete 

 at the apex, bracteal leaves short, attenuated above, surp;isse<l by the two closely 

 approximate, erect, slender peduncles 1 to 2 inches long; bracts almost equal, 

 striate, cuspidate, acuminate; flowers 3 to 8 on more or less exserted erect pedicels. 

 April. 



Louisianian area. 



Alabama : Lower Pine region. Mobile and Escambia counties, April {C. F. Baker). 



Type locality : " Western Florida to Mississippi." 



Herb. Biol. Surv., Auburn. 



Sisyrinchium rosulatum Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 26 : 228. 1899. 



Prostrate or ascending, from rosulate tufts; roots short-branched, woody, with 

 fibrillous rootlets. In the smaller tufts stem short, from under I to \l inches 

 long; in stouter plants from 6 to 8 inches long, slender, subterete, narrowly mar- 

 gined with serrulate edges; basal leaves from 1 to 3 inches long, narrow, the 

 broadened base hyaline-margined, more or less attenuate toward the acute apex, 

 denticulate-serrulate; stem leaves much shorter than the peduncles, flat-sheathing; 

 peduncles slender, 1 to 4 inches long, the outer bracts more attenuate and some- 

 what larger; flowers of a reddish purple or wine color. April. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina. 



Alabama : Dry open places, borders of paths and pastures, 



"Very distinct from any of our Eastern North American species, having its affin- 

 ity with certain South American forms, and a Central American and Mexican 

 species." 



TyiJe locality: "Dry open places in sandy soil, coast of South Carolina and 

 Alabama." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sisyrinchium albidum Raf. Atlant. .louru. 17. 1832. 



Bicknell, UuU. Torr. Club, 26 : 34(5. 



Glaucous or glaucescent; stem from 8 to 18 inches high, leaves about half the 

 length of the stem, ,V to ^ inch wide, acute, smooth edged or serrulate above; 

 stem flat, wings thin, usually broader than the stem proper, smooth or serrulate on 

 the edges; spathe terminal, single with unequal bracts, the primordial 1 to 2h 

 inches long, more than twice as long as the inner bract, foliaceous, attenuate, and 

 mostly acute; flowers often as many as nine in the spathe, petals white to pale 

 violet; capsule globose, depressed, seed umbilicate pitted. (Condensed from 

 Bicknell.) 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. From Kentucky to Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, 

 and Missouri; south to Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana. 



Alabama: Lower hills. Tuscaloosa. Connty (Dr. E. A, Smith). Rare. 



Type locality (Bicknell) : West Kentucky. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



