380 BICKNELL: STUDIES IN SISYRINCHIUM 
throughout the state, being restricted, or very nearly so, to the 
coastwise counties, through which it ranges from San Diego, and 
doubtless Lower California, northward into Mendocino County, 
from beyond which no specimens have been forthcoming. This 
species bears the distinction of having flowers of larger maximum 
size than any other species of the United States, although surpassed 
in both the size and beauty of its flowers by Szsyrinchium Macounu 
of Vancouver Island. 
In the Sierra Nevada region, northward from about the middle 
of the state, and beyond into Oregon, Szsyrinchium bellum is re- 
placed by a slighter and smaller-flowered plant, Szsyreuchium 
Greenet sp. nov., which appears to be generally representative of that 
region, while in the valleys and mountains of the southern part of 
the state away from the coast another species, Sisyrinchium East- 
woodiae sp. nov., appears to be equally representative. A further, 
somewhat obscure species from the southwestern ranges nearer the 
coast is admitted as Sisyrinchium hesperium sp. nov. Four species 
appear from the extreme eastern parts of the state, one very dis- 
tinct and apparently local species, Sisyrinchium funereum sp. NOV., 
in the southeast, and three, Sisyrinchium halophilum Greene, Sisy- 
vinchium leptocaulon Bicknell and Sisyrinchium orcophilum sp. nov., 
all simple-stemmed plants, mostly in the Sierra Nevada region. 
SISYRINCHIUM HALOPHILUM Greene, Pitt. 4: 34. 1899. 
Inyo County, Bishop ; Owen’s Valley, alt. 5,000 ft., May 15, 
1897, VW. E. Jones, Herb. Missouri Bot. Gard. (not U. S. Nat. 
Herb., as cited in error Bull. Torrey Club, 26: 451. 1899) ; Sierra 
Nevada Mts., 1875, /. G. Lemmon, U. S. Nat. Herb. 
These specimens are stouter and broader-leaved, with thicker 
roots and perhaps larger flowers than the type, but are without 
perfect flowers and fruit and can be referred to no other species at 
present described. 
The range of S. halophilum may be extended to Idaho, Wyom- 
ing and Colorado. From these states come a series of small, 
slender plants which, while contrasting markedly with the speci- 
mens from California cited above are brought closer to them by 
somewhat intermediate characters found in the Nevadatype. The 
principal differences from the latter are more slender, less clustered 
roots, slenderly prolonged outer bract and apparently larger and 
darker-colored, thinner-walled capsules. 
