450 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



GEMMINGIA Fabr. Enuin. PI. Hort. Helmst. 1759. 



(BELAMCANDA Adans. Fam. PI. 2 : 60. L763.) 

 (PAKDANTHUS Ker-Gawl. in Koen. & Sims, Ann. Bot. 1 : 246. 1805.) 



Gemmiugia ckinensis (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2 :701. 1891. 



Ijcia chinensis L. Sp. PI. 1 : 36. 1753. 



Pardanthus chinensis Ker-Gawl. in Koen. & Sims, Ann. Bot. 1 : 246. 1805. 



lielamcanda chinensis (L.) DC. Red. Lil. 3 : 1. 1*1. 1807. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 515. 



Carolinian area. Introduced from China, naturalized. Maryland, Missouri, South 

 Atlantic States. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Coast Pine belt. Roadsides, waste places. Jackson 

 County, Scottsboro. Jefferson County. Choctaw County, Blad on. Flowers orange, 

 spotted with crimson. July; not common. 



Type locality : " Hab. in India." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SISYRINCHIUM L. Sp. PL 2 : 954. 1753.' Bu E-KYED GRASS. 



Perennial herbs, about 90 species, all American. From the Atlantic coast to 

 southern Chile. Mexico to South America (mostly tropical), about 50 species; United 

 States and British North America, 40; Eastern United States and Canada, 11 or 12; 

 Southern States to Texas, 13 ; Western, 10. 



Sisyrinchium graminoides Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club. 23 : 133, t. 263. 



STOUT BLUE-EYED GRASS. 



Sisyrinchitim gramineum Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 464. 1799. Not Lam. 



S. anceps Wats, in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 515. 1890. Not Cavanilles. 



S. bermudianum of American authors, not Linnaeus. 



Carolinian area. New Jersey to Florida, west to southern Indiana. 



ALABAMA: LowerPineregion. Coast plain. In grassy pine woods. Mobile County. 

 Flowers cerulean blue. April, May ; not rare. 



Type locality of S. gramineum Curtis: "A native of Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sisyrinchiuin corymbosum Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 26 : 218. 1899. 



From 1 to 1| feet high from an ascending rootstock crowded with coarse (not 

 tibrillous) rootlets. Stem flat, narrowly wing-margined, smooth-edged ; inflorescence 

 fastigiate, subcorymbosely branched above; branches 3 to 6 inches long; leaves 

 rigid, erect, often surpassing the flrst internode of the stem, slightly ciliolate toward 

 the acute apex; lowest bracteal leaf erect; bracts nearly equal, acute, carinate 

 at the base with hyaline edges; flowers numerous, sky-blue, on slender pedicels 

 exceeding the bracts. April, May. 



Readily distinguished by its branches, subcorymbose inflorescence, and long, stiff, 

 erect leaves. 



Louisianiau area. Eastern Florida. 



ALABAMA : Coast plain. Damp, grassy banks. Mobile County, frequent. " Speci- 

 mens from Mobile present apparently a reduced form of the type, more slender and 

 less branched, with elongated bracteal leaf." 



Type locality : ''Florida : ' Pine barrens near Jacksonville/ A. H. Curtiss. * 

 Alabama: Mobile, Dr. Chas. Mohr." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sisyrinchium carolinianum Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club. 26 : 221. 1899. 



In loose tufts, fibrous-coated at the base, from an ascending or erect rootstock 

 with clustered and coarsely fibrous roots. Stem erect, slender, with two or three 

 nodes, about one-eighth inch wide, broadly margined with serrulate edges ; leaves 

 frequently much shorter than the stem, rather thin, erect, i to ^inch wide, distinctly 

 serrulate; nodes of the stem with 2 or 3 long peduncles subtended by a foliaceous 

 bracteal leaf ; bracts subequal, attenuate toward the apex or obtuse, mucronulate; 

 flowers 3 to 8 on slightly exserted pedicels, violet blue. April. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Western North Carolina, South Carolina, and 

 from Georgia to Mississippi. 



1 E. P. Bicknell, The blue-eyed grasses of the Eastern United States, Bull. Torr. 

 Club, vol. 23, pp. 130 to 136. 1896. Same Author, Studies in Sisyrinchium, op. cit. ? vol. 

 26, pp. 217 to 231. 



