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yellow, the entire crest zone a blotch of yellow, veined, flecked, and streaked 
with brown-violet and itself well streaked into the lower third of the blade: 
e same co S se er, 
lower blade sides flushed yellow, the nearly wingless claw edi with orange 
veins, the blade-channel pale orange-green: style-branches orange- purplish bus 
wing-margins greenish-yellow; n d. 2 -rose-lilac, flushed dull bro 
E anthers inclu ded: capsu seen.—Swamps, marshes, and die 
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71. I. schizolopha Alexander. Flower-stalk’ ereet, stout, striet and rigid: 
sepals spreading or recurved-spreading, within, the claw creamy-yellow, veined 
olive-yellow above, olive-green below, the blade e ground- -eolor varying from light- 
violet to light purplish-rose, but a great radial blotch of creamy yellow ex- 
tends up from the claw and streaks in flecks, blotches, and streaks out a 
to th gins, y obseuring the gro , and an 
potted brown-violet, the crest yellow, split to the base of the blad by a black- 
violet or brown-re orks just b the erest zone i t 
parts, both of which continue separately to the margin; witho t, all yellow, 
except t ade rgin: p 1arked like sepals: style-branches smoky- 
colored, faintly flushed with rplish or pin wings p eenish- 
nkish, the 
yellow; appendages light-violet or light old-rose, lacerate- toothed: anther-tips 
included: capsule not seen.—Ditches and bayou- banks, S La.—Spr. 
72. I. Albispiritus Small. Flower- i ereet, rigid: flowers slightly el 
i25 sepals 8.5-14 cm. long, more or less recurved, the claw suffused with 
sed a 
en, the blade longer than the claw, white: RS 2 mee greenish white ; 
appendages white, deeply e eapsule Mr ndr 6—10.5 em. lo ong, 
6-ribbed.— Low pinelands and savannahs, pen. Fla.—Early Spr. This species 
is most common in the lower half of the "Florida peninsula. 
73. l. savannarum Sm Flower-stalk strict, rigid, erect: sepals 8-4 em. 
long, recurved- a rm claw suffused with green, the blade elliptic to 
oval, of a violet-blue or violet ground-color, whitish or white-flecked at the 
extendi up i 
ase, the o the bla 
nearly linear, often much shorter than the sepals, the claw suffused with green 
or lavender, the blade longer than the claw, bluish or violet: sty e 
with à greenish groun I eolor, but heavily flushe d and streaked I ua iolet, the 
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mocks, pen. Fla.—Early Spr.—Larger areas are exclusively occupied day this 
prairie iris than by any of our other species. Colonies, in extent a the 
eye can see, often occupy the low prairies where the soils are e usually oa. 
acid. The plant is decidedly influenced by the bea cable following a dry 
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appear. This species occurs in s AE este and pure white forms as 
well as the the -violet. 
74. I. Kimballiae ieee Flower-stalk erect, ido sepals 8.5—10 cm. long, 
eeurved- oe ing, the claw suffused with gr “ee , the blade ovate or ure 
e, p margins be- 
the EE the elaw whitish or greenish and more or less suffused with red- 
violet: the blade longer than the claw, ae mie. style- pint light pink- 
