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Sisyrinchicm angustipolium Miller, Diet., ed. 6 (1771). 



Sisyrinchium anceps Oivanilles, Dissert, vi, p. 345, t. 190, fig. 2 (1788). 



Sisyrinchium gramineum Curtis, Bot. Mag., t. 464(1799). 



Sisyrinchium mucronatum Michaux, Fl. Bor-Am. ii, p. 33 (1803). 



Sisyrinchium bermudiana Linn., Sp. PL, ed. i, p. 954 excl. fi. bermudense. 



Sisyrinchium bermudiana, A. Gray, Man. Bot. Northern U. S., ed. 5, p. 517. 



Chapman, Fl. Southern U. S., p. 474; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 



Lond., xvi, p. 117, excel, var.l. 

 Sisyrinchium caeruleum parvum gladiato caule Virginianum : Plukenet, 



Almagestum, p. 348, et Phytogr., t. 61. fig. 1. 

 Bermudiana graminea, flore minore caruleo : Dillenius, Hort. Elth., p. 49, 



t. 41, fig. 49. 



Common in the Eastern States of North America from Massa- 

 chusetts to Florida, and naturalized in the Mauritius, New Zea- 

 land, and Australia. It also occurs in Ireland, where it is reported 

 to be spreading ; and as it so readily colonizes, it lias been con- 

 sidered as an introduced plant, though, on the other hand, the 

 North American Eriocaulonstptangulare is generally admitted to 

 be indigenous in Ireland. Since the above has been in type, 

 Dr. Asa Gray has directed my attention to the fact that Mr. 

 Sereno Watson pointed out, as long ago as 1877 (Proc. Am. Acad. 

 Sc. xii, p. 277), that the Bermudian Sisyrinchium is a distinct 

 species ; but as he neither elaborated the synonymy of the species 

 nor explained that the Linnean S. bermudiana was a composite 

 one, he has only so far anticipated me that he recognized the 

 Bermudian plant as different from the North American. — W. B. 

 Memsley, in American Naturalist for June, 1881. 



IX. Proceedings of the Natural History Society. 



The first ordinary meeting of the Natural History Society of 

 Montreal for the session 1883-84 was held on the evening of 

 Monday, 29th October ; the president, Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, in 

 the chair. After routine business, Mr. G. L. Marler exhibited 

 specimens of the osprey, wood-duck and blue-bird, presented to 

 the museum by Mr. W. L. Marler, St. Johns, Que. The thanks 

 of the society were given Mr. Marler for his donation. 



Messrs. W. H. Rintoul, and W. P. J. Bond were elected ordi- 

 nary members, and Messrs. J. H. B. Molson, J. 0. Bobert, J. 

 Jack and Prof. "D. P. Penhallow were proposed for membership. 



