BICKNELL: STUDIES IN SISYRINCHIUM 391 
narrow finely nerved wings, the edges smooth or slightly denticu- 
late; peduncles 1-3, erect or diverging, long and very slender, 
5- 14 cm. in length; spathes narrow, 15-25 mm. long or the outer 
bract longer ; bracts membranous, narrow, often attenuate, deli- 
cately nerved, mostly cuspidate-acute and often narrowly aristulate, 
distinctly white-margined, the outer one united-clasping below for 
5-10 mm., sometimes for half its length ; inner scales narrow, at- 
tenuate, about three-quarters the length of the bracts; flowers on 
hair-like exserted pedicels, deep violet-purple, perianth about 10 
mm. long; stamineal column about 5 mm. long; capsules often 
on flexuously spreading pedicels, brown, thin-walled, obovoid- 
pyriform to subglobose, 3-5 mm. high, slightly puberulent ; seeds 
only 2-4 in each row, large, becoming 1.5 mm. or more in diam- 
eter, rugulose. 
Near the boundary between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo 
Counties, Dutard’s Ranch, May 9, 1896 (type). 
Fresno County : Wauthan, May 11, 1893. 
Monterey County: Melpitas Ranch, Santa Lucia Mountains, 
May 1-12, 1899. 
All in flower and early fruit and collected by Miss Alice East- 
wood. In Herb. Cal. Acad. Sci. 
A much more slender and delicate species than .S. de//um, often 
very fragile, with long, very slender peduncles, smaller, more del- 
icate flowers on hairlike, mostly flexuously exserted pedicels, and 
smaller, thinner-walled capsules. 
