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Specimens at hand are from Johnson, Henry and Decatur counties. 
Professor Bessey reported the species from Story county. 
Bessey, C. E. Fourth Biennial Report Iowa State Agricultural College, p. 
122, 1872. 
Arthur, J. C. Contributions to the Flora of Iowa, p. 31, 1876. 
Fitzpatrick, T. J. and M. F. B. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 
1897, Vol. 5, p. 165, 1898. 
2. SiSYRixcHiUM AXGusTiFOLiUM Mill. Card. Diet. Ed. 8. 1768. 
SUsyrinchivm unceps Cav. 6: 345. pi. 190. f. 2. 1788. 
i^isyrincliium mucronalum Michx. FI. Boi'. Am. 2 : 33. 1803. 
Sisyrinchiii HI hcrniiididtia L. of American authors. 
Whole plant pale green, glaucous; stems 4 — 14 inches high, erect, 
rigid, usually unhranched, 2-edged, narrowly 2-winged; leaves usually 
all hasal, one line or less in width, rigid, somewhat setaceous, shorter 
than the stem; bracts unequal, sometimes purplish, the lower one about 
two inches long, the upper one inch long; umbels 2 — 4-flowered; flowers 
6 — 8 lines across, violet, blue or white; pedicels erect, 6 — 8 lines long, 
shorter than the shortest bract; capsule subglobose, 2 — 3 lines in dia- 
meter. sometimes purple tinged; seeds brown, less than a line long, 
somewhat obovoid. Type locality not given. 
This species ranges from Newfoundland to British Columbia, south to 
Virginia, Kansas and Colorado. In Iowa the flowers appear from April 
until August. The habitat is prairie soil, fields and meadows, preferring 
m.oist places. In occurrence the species is common. 
Iowa specimens in the v/riter's collection are from Winneshiek, John- 
son. Decatur, Osceola, Shelby, Emmet and Dickinson counties. The 
species was noted in Des Moines and Page counties. Specimens in the 
State University herbarium are from the additional counties of Muscatine, 
Henry, Lee, Delaware, Calhoun, Polk. Lyon and Pottawattamie counties. 
Professor Bessey reported the species from Fayette and Warren counties; 
Professor Hitchcock from Story county; Gow from Adair county; Peck 
from Hardin county; and Barnes. Reppert and Miller from Scott and 
PJugcatine counties. 
Barry, C. C. Owen's Report of the Oeologtcal Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa and 
Minnesota, p. 619, 1852. 
Bessey, C. E. Fourth Biennial Report of the Iowa State Agricultural (’ol- 
lege, p. 122, 1872. 
Arthur. .7. C. (^ntributions to the Flora of Iowa, p. 31, 1876. 
Nagel. .1. .7. and Ilaupt. .7. G. Proceedings of the D'avenport Academy of 
Natural Sciences, Yol. 1, p. 164. 1876. 
Hitchcock, A. S. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Imuis, Vol. 
5. p. 519, 1892. 
Pammel, Ij. II. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1892, Vol. 
1. part 3. p. 60. 1893: Yol. 9, 1901. p. 164, 1902. 
Rigg, G. B. Notes on the Flora of Calhoun County, Iowa, p. 26, 1896. 
Fink. Bruce. I’roccedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1896, Yol. 4. 
p. 103, 1897. 
Fitzpatrick, 'll ,7. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1897, Vol. 
5, p. 129. 1898. 
Fitzpatrick, T. ,7. and 'SI. F. 7,. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 
1897, Yol. 5, p. 165, 1898. 
