384 BICKNELL: STUDIES IN SISYRINCHIUM 
Modoc County: June 14, 1893, JZ. S. Baker. 
Plumas County: Near Pratville, Mountain Meadow, 5,500 ft., 
July 2, 1897, VM. E. Jones ; July, 1896, 1897, 1898, Mrs. R. M. 
Austin. 
Butte County: Little Chico Creek, May, 1896, Colby, July, 
1896, Mrs. R. M. Austin. 
Placer County : Applegate, May, 1899, Mrs. Helen Smith. 
An inhabitant of the mountainous region of the north and 
northeastern part of the state, there replacing S. del/um of the 
coastwise counties and ascending to high altitudes. 
It is ordinarily'a smaller, more delicate plant than S. ded/um, 
paler green in color and drying paler, and with much smaller 
flowers. So considerable, however, are the variations shown by 
the series of specimens at present necessary to refer to this species 
that little doubt need be entertained that more than one species is 
involved. Confident segregation, however, must await critical 
study of more complete material. 
The type of S. Greenei may be taken as H. E. Brown’s no. 354; 
from Mt. Shasta, of which I have seen four good sheets from as 
many herbaria and which is somewhat intermediate between €X- . 
tremes of the series. 
Certain specimens from high elevations in Plumas County, as 
well as from Klamath Lake, Oregon (July, 1893, Mrs. &. M. 
Austin), are extremely delicate and slender throughout and bear 
only one or two terminal peduncles ; other specimens are con- 
siderably stouter with broader and thinner leaves. <A few speci- 
mens vary suggestively from the type by unusually long peduncles, 
broad thin leaves and sharply serrulate stems, and appear also to 
be earlier-flowering, several specimens having been collected in 
full flower in the month of May. 
A particularly notable specimen more than doubtfully associated 
with the others here assigned is from near Pentz, Butte Co., CO 
lected by Mrs. C. C. Bruce, April, 1897 (Herb. Cal. Acad. Sci.), i 
full flower and with some mature fruit, although typical S. Green?! 
appears not to bloom ordinarily until June and July ; these sper 
mens are further remarkable for their greatly elongated stems an 
leaves, some being 70 cm. high, very pale and glaucous, peduncles 
in clusters of 2-5, and capsules very large, becoming 7 mm. high. 
