BICKNELL: STUDIES IN SISYRINCHIUM 385 
‘Sisyrinchium Eastwoodiae sp. nov. 
Glaucescent green, often brownish-tinged on the herbarium 
sheet, 20-60 cm. high; roots clustered, becoming slightly thick- 
ened towards the base. Leaves firm, with acute hardened tips, 
sometimes nearly equalling the stem but more often half its height, 
I-3 mm. or even 4 mm. wide, firmly striate-nerved, the edges 
smooth or, in forms, roughened with minute points ; stems erect, 
often flexuously curved, about the width of the leaves, flattened 
and narrowly winged to subterete and merely margined, the edges 
smooth or, in forms, bearing close-set, erect or retrorse cartilagin- 
ous points; node mostly one, high up, or sometimes two, its 
tip, united-clasping for 4-8 mm. at base; inner scales equal- 
ing the shorter bract or sometimes much shorter; flowers rather 
numerous, 8-14, on erect or slightly spreading exserted pedicels, 
rather small ; perianth 8-12mm. long, the segments broadly short- 
aristulate from a usually slightly retuse wet violet-purple, the 
yellow eye small; stamineal column about 5 mm. long, ovary 
small, 2-4 mm. oe seeds rd in each row, about 1.5 mm. in 
diameter, rugulose. 
Valleys and mountains of Southern California extending into 
Lower California, not apparently reaching the coast ; blooms from 
early May to July or later. Named in honor of Miss Alice East- 
wood. 
Kern County : Tehachapi, June 22, 1889, Prof. E. L. Greene ; 
San Emidio Cafion, October 2, 1894, Miss Alice Eastwood. 
San. Bernardino County: San Bernardino Valley, in meadows. 
May, 1886, S. B. & W. F. Parish, no. 663 (type), also 1889 and 
1888, by same collectors; San Bernardino, May 3, 1898, S. B, 
Parish, 1880, G. R. Vasey; San Bernardino Mountains and their 
eastern base, alt. 5,000 ft., June 28, 1894, S. B. Parish, no. 3045. 
San Diego County: San Ysabel, May, 1893, 7. W. Henshaw ; 
Cuiamaca Mountains, July 12, 1875, Edward Palmer, no. 374. 
The above description of S. Zastwoodiae has been derived pri- 
marily from the plant of the San Bernardino Valley represented 
