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and as the slender stems grew rather closely together, it was 
brilliantly conspicuous, attracting both my attention and that of 
earc 
The plant is seemingly very local; we could find, after a pro- 
re i 
covered only a square yard or so of e flower-heads 
were, as a rule, solitary on each individual plant, though in a few 
instances two on lant were observed, which is a e 
were rather more than three inches in diameter; the stem of 
each plant was only about two feet high, and nearly all in the 
patch (there may have been 40 or 50) were of approximately 
n pin 
shaped tuber nearly horizontal in position, nearly two inches long, 
bearing several fiber-like roots. 
It is somewhat ree that this very tis te 
eco 
tain it, and I have failed to find any record of the plant in botan- 
ical literature. T nly plausible explanation of this would 
ee! be the species is very local in its distribution, though 
one can hardly believe that it is actually restricted to the patch 
found near Sag Harbor. The soil in which it grew was appa- 
