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* IRIS aláta. 
Small-winged Iris. ' 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. IriDACEA. 
IRIS.—Supra, vol. 3. fol. 246. 
I. alata ; imberbis, acaulis, foliis ensiformibus, corollze tubo longissimo laciniis 
interioribus minimis, styli laciniis obtusis undulatis lacinias exteriores equan- 
tibus.  Dietr. Sp. pl. 2. 436. 
I. alata. Poir. iter.2. 86. Bivona pl. sic. cent. 1. p. 44. 
I. scorpioides. Desf. fl. atl. 1. p. 40. t. 6.- 
I. microptera. Vahl. enum. 2. 142. 
I. transtagana. Brot. ft. lusit. p. 52. 
Juno scorpioides. Trattin. tabul. no. 652. 
Iris bulbosa latifolia 1. Clus. hist. plant. rar. p. 210. 
Folia planiuscula, carinata, lorata, acuminata, nullo modo equitantia, 
pedem et ultra longa, paginá superiore lucidà tactu molli, inferiore opacá, 
margine minutissimè cartilagineo-serrulata. Flos e sinu foliorum solitarius, 
üsque multò brevior, e spathis duabus magnis membranaceis subherbaceis 
erumpens; ovario hypogeo, basibus foliorum, Croci modo, tecto. Tubus 
Joris 6-poll. longus, et ultra, apice letissime purpureus ; laciniee calycine 
oblongo-spatulate, margine crenato-undulate, ascendentes, recurve, glaber- 
rime, lined elevatd disci intense luted, ceterum amene purpureo-violacee 
maculate ; lacini® corolline spathulata, basi valde angustate, limbo coch- 
leato crispato, calycinis triplò breviores, recte, divaricate. Stamina calycinis 
opposita. Stigmata apice biloba, laciniis dimidiatis, acuminatis, laceris. 
Odor florum gratus inter hyacinthinum et sambucinum.. 
Found by Desfontaines in moist faces near Algiers, 
flowering in the winter. According to Bivona, a native of. 
sterile meadows and rocks in Sa Clusius speaks of it as i 
a common plant in Portugal and Spain “at the foot of hills, A 
e k^ AM 7, a 
i E, 
~a See folio 1404. 
