440 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
3. J. COMPRES H. B. K. nov. gen. 1, 235; Kunth. 
En. 3, 317: tiecinake repente, caulibus (palmaribus sesqui- 
pedalibus) compressis farctis siccis tenuiter striatis; vaginis 
stay to me. Dr. J. Gregg collected the same Sas in 
pe all, rather simpte on y the extreme branc e- 
sided flowers; the reddish streaks on the ei on le ; 
the only capsule seen (not ripe) was shorter than the sepals 
and contained a few large seeds, 0.37 line long and a nt- 
an frequent o ence of lea 
guish it. Among Fendler’s Sante Fé plants, however, I 
under No. 860, with the legitimate J. Balticus, var. monianus, 
small specimens 6-7 inches high, with the darker 
the former, but with a slightly compressed stem, and occa- 
sionally with a leaf from the vagine. Is that a form interme- 
diate betwen and connecting both species? 
4. J. Brewert, n. sp.: rhizomate perpendiculari; caulibus 
cespitosis (pedalibuis) compressis levibus farctis ; vagini 
ervosis muticis; spatha panicul paucifl in ultimis 
ec 
filamento brevi multo (quadruplo quintuplo) longioribus ; 
ve reppee ovarium cum stylo «equi-longo swquantibus ex- 
sertis ; capsula 
Wet, sandy soil, Ping renter, California, the same un- 
fortunate iit hat has often been confounded by 
botanical writers Jim aices in Nuevo Leon, Real del 
Mo mr in Mexico, and even Montreal in nae oe Calif, State 
Survey No. 651, in flower in the latter part of May.—The 
perpendicular 4 a (if a constant character) and the 
