450 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
GEMMINGIA Fabr. Enum. Pl. Hort. Helmst. 1759. 
(BELAMCANDA Adans. Fam. Pl. 2:60. 1763.) 
(PARDANTHUS Ker-Gawl. in Koen. & Sims, Ann. Bot. 1: 246. 1805.) 
Gemmingia chinensis (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. P1.2:701. 1891. 
Iria chinensis L. Sp. P1.1:36. 1753. 
Pardanthus chinensis Ker-Gawl. in Koen. & Sims, Ann. Bot. 1: 246. 1805. 
Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC. Red. Lil. 3: 4.221. 1807. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 515. 
Carolinian area. Introduced from China, naturalized. Maryland, Missouri, South 
Atlantic States. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Coast Pine belt. Roadsides, waste places. Jackson 
Connty, Scottsboro. Jefferson County. Choctaw County, Bladon. Flowers orange, 
spotted with crimson. July; not common. 
Type locality: ‘“‘Hab. in India.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
SISYRINCHIUM L. Sp. Pl. 2:954. 1753.!. BLUE-EYED GRASS. 
Perennial herbs, about 90 species, all American. From the Atlantic coast to 
southern Chile. Mexico to South America (mostly tropical), about 50 species; United 
States and British North America, 40; Eastern United States and Canada, 11 or 12; 
Southern States to Texas, 13; Western, 10. 
Sisyrinchium graminoides Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club. 23: 133, t. 268. 
Strout BLUE-EYED CGkKASS. 
Sisyrinchium gramineum Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 464. 1799. Not Lam. 
S. anceps Wats. in Gray, Man. ed. 6,515. 1890. Not Cavanilles. 
S. bermudianum of American authors, not Linnaeus. 
Carolinian area. New Jersey to Florida, west to southern Indiana. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pineregion. Coast plain. In grassy pine woods. Mobile County, 
Flowers cerulean blue. April, May; not rare. 
Type locality of S. gramineum Curtis: ‘‘A native of Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sisyrinchium corymbosum Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 26:218. 1899. 
From 1 to 14 feet high from an ascending rootstock crowded with coarse (not 
fibrillous) rootlets. Stem flat, narrowly wing-margined, smooth-edged; inflorescence 
fastigiate, subcorymbosely branched above; branches 3 to 6 inches long; leaves 
rigid, erect, often surpassing the first internode of the, stem, slightly ciliolate toward 
the acute apex; lowest bracteal leaf erect; bracts nearly equal, acute, carinate 
at the base with hyaline edges; flowers numerous, sky-blue, on slender pedicels 
exceeding the bracts. April, May. 
Readily distinguished by its branches, subcorymbose inflorescence, and long, stiff, 
erect leaves. , 
Louisianian area. Eastera Florida. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Damp, grassy banks. Mobile County, frequent. ‘Speci- 
mens from Mobile present apparently a reduced form of the type, more slender and 
less branched, with elongated bracteal leaf.” 
Type locality: ‘‘ Florida: ‘ Pine barrens near Jacksonville,’ A.H.Curtiss. * * * 
Alabama: Mobile, Dr. Chas. Mohr.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sisyrinchium carolinianum Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club. 26: 221. 1899. 
In loose tufts, fibrous-coated at the base, from an ascending or erect rootstock 
with clustered and coarsely fibrous roots. Stem erect, sleuder, with two or three 
nodes, about one-eighth inch wide, broadly margined with serrulate edges; leaves 
frequently much shorter than the stem, rather thin, erect, 4 to inch wide, distinctly 
serrulate; nodes of the stem with 2 or 3 long peduncles subtended by a foliaceous 
bracteal leaf; bracts subequal, attenuate toward the apex or obtuse, mucronulate; 
flowers 3 to 8 on slightly exserted pedicels, violet blue. April. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Western North Carolina, South Carolina, and 
from Georgia to Mississippi. 
'E. P. Bicknell, The blue-eyed grasses of the Eastern United States, Bull. Torr, 
Club, vol. 23, pp. 130 to 136. 1896. Same author, Studies in Sisyrinchium, op. cit., vol. 
26, pp. 217 to 231. 1899. 
