GREENMAN. —NEW ANGIOSPERMS FROM MEXICO, 15 
at first glandular pubescent: capsule oblong, triangular, 5 to 8 mm. long, 
hispidulous: seeds small, round, about 1 mm. in diameter; surface 
slightly honeycombed. —Muxtco. State of Oaxaca: in dry thin soil, 
Cuesta de San Juan del Estado, altitude 1850 m., 20 August, 1894, C. G. 
Pringle, no. 4831 (hb. Gr.), distributed as “ Sisyrinchium Hartwegit, 
Baker form ”; Valley of Etla, altitude 1660 m., 2 July, 1895, Z. C. 
Smith, no. 556 (hb. Gr.). Federal District: lava fields near Tlalpam, 
altitude 2250 m., 16 August, 1902, C. G. Pringle, no. 8656 (hb. Gr.). 
The species here described is distinguished from Sisyrinchium Hart- 
wegit, Benth., which is apparently the same as S. tenuifolium, Humb. & 
Bonpl., by the less branched and less flexuous scapes, the short-pedun- 
culate spathes, and finally by the hirsutish character of the upper part 
of the scape and inflorescence. 
Sisyrinchium Palmeri. Roots tuberous, fascicled, 2 to 3 em. long, 
5 to 7 mm. thick in the dried state: leaves linear-attenuate, 0.5 to 2.5 
dm. long, somewhat sheath-like below and more or less purplish just 
above the base, smooth and glabrous : scape 1.2 to 2 dm. high, flattened, 
usually narrowly winged, branched above, bearing 2 to 4 pedunculate 
inflorescences : peduncles 1.5 to 4 cm. in length, mostly exceeding the 
nodal bract : spathes of two slightly unequal bracts, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 
3-7-flowered : pedicels 2.5 cm. or less in length : perianth yellow, 1.5 
to 2 cm. in diameter: ovary glabrous: capsule oblong, 6 mm. long, 
4mm. thick, rather sharply 3-angled, smooth and glabrous: seeds about 
1 mm. long and broad.— Mexico. State of Jalisco: Rio Blanco, 
June, 1886, Dr. Edward Palmer, no. 18 (hb. Gr.); gravelly plains 
near Guadalajara, 15 July, 1902, C. G. Pringle, no. 8644 (hb. Gr.). 
Sisrrincurum QUADRANGULATUM, Klatt, Linnwa, xxxii. 284. Speci- 
mens secured by Mr. C. G. Pringle on Mt. Orizaba, Mexico, at ae ele- 
vation of 4000 m., 1901, no. 8566 (hb. Gr.), accord well with the original 
characterization of the above species, which was based upon plants 
collected by Liebmann on Mt. Orizaba in 1841. It may be said, how- 
ever, that the color of the perianth in Mr, Pringle’s specimens is dis- 
tinetly blue, not yellow as was stated by Klatt to be the color of the 
flowers in the Liebmann plant. ‘There is in the Gray Herbarium a 
Specimen from the Liebmann collection, which was obtained on Mt. 
Orizaba at an elevation of 3000 m., and the label accompanying oa: 
Plant bears the name “ Sisyrinchium scabrum, Schlecht., var. exaltatum. 
Although this specimen was determined by Klatt, it does not seem to 
have been cited byhim in Linnea xxxii. under the name which it bears. 
It seems altogether probable that the Liebmann plant in the Gray 
