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slender, alternate with the anthers; capsule about one inch in height, 
six lines in diameter, obovoid, truncate or rounded above, thin-walled, 
loculicidally 3-valved, the valves recurving and at length falling aw’ay 
and exposing the erect mass of globose black fleshy seeds, resembling a 
blackberry. Type locality: ‘^HaMtat in India.” 
This species blooms in June and July, and is found frequently in 
cultivation and occasionally as an escape along waysides and in waste 
places. 
The writer collected specimens of this species in Page, Taylor and 
Ringgold counties and noted its occurrence in Dubuque county. Pro- 
fessor Hitchcock reported it from Story county. 
Hitchcock, A. S. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, Vol. 
5, p. 510, 1802. 
Fitzpatrick, T. J. I’roceedir.gs of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1807. Vol. 
5, p. 128, 1808. 
Fitzpatrick, T. J. and M. F. L. rroceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 
1808, Vol. (J, p. 107, 1800. 
3. SISYRINCHIUM L. Sp. PI. 954. 1753. 
Perennial tufted herbs, with slender, simple or branched, 2-edged cr 
2-winged stems, linear grass-like leaves, and small blue or bluish ter- 
minal umbellate flowers from a pair of equal or unequal erect bracts. 
Perianth-tube short or none; the segments 6, spreading, oblong or obovate, 
equal, aristulate. Filaments united to above the middle. Ovary 3-celled, 
each cell with several ovules. Style-branches filiform, alternate with the 
anthers. 
The two bracts of the spathe subequal ; stems broadly winged ; leaves 1 — o 
lines wide. I. /S. graminoides. 
The two bracts of the spathe very unequal ; stems scarcely winged ; leaves 
a line or less in width. 2. >8. angustifolium. 
1. SiSYRixcHiUM GE.^MiNOiDES Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 23: 133, 
pL 263. 1896. 
Sisgrinchiiim gramincinn Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 4C4. 1700. Not Lam. 
Sisyrincliium anceps S. Watson in A. Gray, Man. Ed. G, 515. 1800. Not Cavan- 
illes. 
Sisyrincliiiim hcrmiuliana L. var, anceps Gray. 
Whole plant light green, slightly glaucous; stem 8 — 16 inches high, 
stout, erect, broadly 2-winged, sometimes with two unequal branches 
above which are subtended by a leaf; basal leaves 6 — 10 inches long, 
equal to or shorter than the stem, 1 — 3 lipes wide; bracts about one inch 
long, subequal or the outer one prolonged; umbels 1 — 4-flowered; pedi- 
cels filiform, 8 — 12 lines long, exceeding the bracts, erect, spreading, or 
recurved; flowers 5 — 8 lines across, blue, the outer surface as well as 
the ovary sparingly pubescent; capsule subglobose, 2 — 3 lines in diameter; 
seeds black, nearly globular. Curtis gave the type locality as: “A native 
of Virginia.” 
In Iowa this species occurs infrequently in grassy places in open 
woods and borders. The flowers appear in May and June. The species 
ranges from New Plampshire and Massachusetts to Minnesota, south to 
Florida and Texas. 
