MACLOSKIE I IRIDACE^E. 



315 



FIG. 5 5. 



2. S. CLARAZII Baker. 



Dwarf acquiescent, tufted, yellow-flowered, with a 2-edged flower-stalk, 

 rigid, y-ribbed leaves about i mm. broad. Perianth 6 mm. long. 



Probably in N. Patagon. It and S. chilense are used in infusions for tea. 



3. S. FILIFOLIUM Gaudich. (5. leucanthum Colla.) 



Stem terete, striate, several (2-8) -flowered. Leaves radical, filiform, 

 nearly equalling the scape, produced beyond the 

 bracts to a long spathe. Flowers showy, broad-cam- 

 panulate, 12 by 12 mm., the tepals obovate, subequal, 

 white with purple veins. Filaments free nearly to 

 the base. Capsule glabrous, its cells 3-6-seeded 



(Fig- 55)- 



S. Patagon., Fuegia ; Falklands. By O. W. Peter- 

 son and J. B. Hatcher, near Coy Inlet, at Cobo 

 Negro, and near head of Rio Chico de Sta. Cruz; 

 at Killik Aike on Rio Gallegos (Dusen) ; "Star- 

 grass ; color white with brown stripes. Handsomest 

 and most fragrant in Patagonia. On pampas every- 

 where." (Peterson.) "White at high latitudes, pink 

 at lower." (Hatcher.) "In the Falkland Islands 

 the grassy plains are, in the spring month of Novem- 

 ber, almost whitened by the profusion of its pendu- 

 lous snowy bells." (J. D. Hooker.) 



(Index Kewensis gives S. filifolium and S. leu- 

 canthum as distinct species. Klatt identifies them.) 



4. S. GRAMINIFOLIUM Lindl. 



Sisyrinchium filifolium. 



Scape 60 cm. high, subcompressed. Leaves erect, inflorescence and flower; 

 6-10 mm. wide, strongly striated, glaucous rieid essential or s ans > and cross - 



i- ,, 2 . . , section of dehiscing fruit. 



exceeding the scape. Capsules shorter than the pedi- (A fter Flora antarcL.) 

 eels, ovoid-globular. 



S. Patagon., Eden; E. Fuegia. (Br. Ansorge.) 



5. S. HUMILE Phil. 



Stem only 10 cm. high, densely leafy, about i -flowered, the leaves dis- 

 tichous, acute, 5-10 cm. long, exceeding the flower, "Cetera S. cuspidati." 

 (Chili); S. Patagon., by Rio Sta. Cruz; Gregory Bay. 



