NEW SPECIES OF SISYRINCHIUM. 33 
tomentose fibrous roots; basal portion of the plant above 
ground sheathed with a rather heavy fibrous coat of dead 
remains of the foliage of other seasons: leaves and scapes 
of about equal length and more than a foot high, all of 
rather hard and dry texture: leaves pale and glaucescent, 
about 9-striate and very minutely erystalline-granular be- 
tween the lines: slender seape ancipital, with about 3 lines 
on either side of the midrib, and minutely dentieulate on 
the almost hyaline edges, the summit bearing two or more 
peduncled spathes, the cluster subtended* by a long bract; 
spathes many-flowered, their bracts about equal, acute, 
strongly striate: flowers aud fruits not seen. 
Collected by Mr. Nash, on high pinelands near Eustis 
Lake, Florida, 1894, and distributed for S. Bermudiana ; but 
representing a new species most strongly characterized by 
its distinet underground stem, tomentose roots, and the 
fibrous-sheathed tuft of leaves and scapes. 
¿€ S. LITTORALE. Plant of rather thin and flaccid deep- 
green herbage darkening in drying: leaves few and short, 
though broad, seldom more than two or three, of only about 
half the height of the seape, somewhat ensiform, 7-striate 
and the lines rather remote: seape solitary, a foot high or 
less, ancipital, bearing a single spathe, the bracts very un- 
equal, the lower fur surpassing the flowers: perianth rather 
large, 4 inch long, violet, the segments alternately obtuse 
and retuse, all subulate-cuspidate: fruit not seen. 
A maritime species, growing among mosses, grasses and 
rushes, along the shores of Yes Bay, Alaska; collected by 
Mr. Gorman in July, 1895, and by Mr. Howell at about the 
same time; all the specimens in flower only. 
4 S. MoxrANUM. Plant stout, erect, more than a foot high, 
herbage light-green, glabrous, not glaucescent: foliage rather 
copious but short, of less than half the length of the scapes, 
the broad leaves about 9-striate, the alternate lines com- 
