352 The Botanical Gazette, [November, 
straight branches from the root. The staminate flowers have 
five sepals and ten stamens, and fall off at once when touched. 
narrowly obovate non‘punctate leaves (not shining above), 
single and short (1.5 cm.) fruiting pedicel, and much lar- 
Sisyrinchium Thurowi, n. sp. Low (4 to 7. cm. high), ces- 
pitose and procumbent: stems rather broadly winged, with a 
flower-bearing branch at each node: leaves short, scarcely 
2mm. broad: corolla 4 to 5mm. long: outer bracts a little 
longer than the very slender pedicels: flowers small, yellow,2 to 
4in each umbel: pods oblong or pear shaped (4 to § mm. long), 
prominently transversely wrinkled between the seeds, which 
are 10 to 14 in each cell, depressed-globose, very small 
(scarcely 0.5 mm. broad), black and deeply punctate. 
--Hockley, Texas, Thurow. Nearest S. Schaffneri Wats., 
but smaller, densely cespitose and procumbent, not at all 
SCapose (the stems bearing leaves and flowering bral 
with smaller leaves, smaller, firmer and more deeply wrinkle 
pods, and very minute black punctate seeds. oe 
Fritillaria linearis, n. sp. Bulb scales few and one 
stem 20 to 25 cm. high: leaves (10 or more) narrowly inet 
lanceolate, scattered, more or less whorled below: flowers ; 
blotched with brownish purple within, 2cm. long, the i’ 
ments ovate-lanceolate, slightly spreading at the tips. Bit 
longer than the style, which is deeply parted and much we 
than the stamens.-—Black Hills of Dakota. In some way 
Indiana University, Bloomington. 
