BLUE-EYED GRASSES. 451 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. Lee County (Baker §: Farle). Mobile County, 
April, 1899 (Karle). 
Specimens from Mobile and Mississippi ‘‘are aberrant and may represent yet 
another species. ” / 
Type locality: “Western North Carolina and central South Carolina to Georgia, 
Alabama, and Mississippi.” ; 
Type in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 
Sisyrinchium scoparium Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 26: 227. 1899. 
From 6 to 20 inches high, in close tufts from a fibrillous base and a contracted 
rootstock with coarse fibrous roots. Stem, like the leaves, very narrow and smooth; 
the striate wing margins roughish on the edges above; leaves erect, very slender, 
generally shorter than the stems; inflorescence somewhat flabellately short-branched 
from the two (sometimes one) nodes bearing one or two slender, short peduncles; 
bracteal leaf long, slender; bracts strongly striate, acuminate, subequal, tips finally 
spreading; flowers 6 to 11, violet blue. April. 
Louisianian area. Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Mobile County, March (Harle). 
Type locality: ‘Coast of Mississippi. Biloxi, April 27, 1898, C. I’. Baker.” 
Sisyrinchium fuscatum Bull. Torr. Club, 26: 225. 1899. 
In tufts 8 to 20 inches high, from rather stout rootstocks with clustering fibrous 
roots. Stem long, slender, erect, narrow, the edges of the narrow wing minutely 
denticulate; leaves narrow, slender, shorter than the stem, firm, acute or subterete 
at the apex, bracteal leaves short, attenuated above, surpassed by the two closely 
approximate, erect, slender peduncles 1 to 2 inches long; bracts almost equal, 
Foe he cuspidate, acuminate; flowers 3 to 8 on more or less exserted erect pedicels, 
pril. 
Louisianian area. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Mobile and Escambia counties, April (C. I’. Baker). 
Type locality: ‘‘ Western Florida to Mississippi.” 
Herb. Biol. Surv., Auburn. ; 
Sisyrinchium rosulatum Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 26: 228. 1899. 
Prostrate or ascending, from rosulate tufts; roots short-branched, woody, with 
fibrillons rootlets. In the smaller tufts stem short, from under 4 to 14 inches 
long; in stouter plants from 6 to 8 inches long, slender, subterete, narrowly mar- 
gined with serrulate edges; basal leaves from 1 to 3 inches long, narrow, the 
broadened base hyaline-margined, more or less attennate toward the acute apex, 
denticulate-serrulate; stem leaves much shorter than the peduncles, flat-sheathing ; 
peduncles slender, 1 to 4 inches long, the outer bracts more attenuate and some- 
what larger; flowers of a reddish purple or wine color. April. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina. 
ALaBaMA: Dry open places, borders of paths and pastures. 
“Very distinct from any of our Eastern North American species, having its affin- 
ity with certain South American forms, and a Central American and Mexican 
species.” 
Erype locality: ‘(Dry open places in sandy soil, coast of South Carolina and 
Alabama.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sisyrinchium albidum Raf. Atlant. Journ. 17. 1832. 
Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 26: 346. 
Glancous or glaucescent; stem from 8 to 18 inches high, leaves about half the 
length of the stem, ,; to + inch wide, acute, smooth-edged or serrulate above; 
stem flat, wings thin, usually broader than the stem proper, smooth or serrulate on 
the edges; spathe terminal, single with unequal bracts, the primordial 1 to 24 
inches long, more than twice as long ag the inner bract, foliaceous, attenuate, and 
mostly acute; flowers often as many as niuve in the spathe, petals white to pale 
violet; capsule globose, depressed, seed umbilicate pitted. (Condensed from 
Bicknell.) . 
Eiechanian to Louisianian area. From Kentucky to Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, 
and Missouri; south to Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana. 
.ALABAMA: Lower hills. Tuscaloosa County (Dr. £. A, Smith). Rare. 
Type locality (Bicknell): West Kentucky. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. 
