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Iris Spuria. Spurious Iris. 
Oafs and Order. 
Triandria Monogynia. 
Generic Character. 
CoroUa 6-petala, inaequalis, petalis alternis geniculato-patenti- 
bus. Stigmata petaliformia, cucullato-bilabiata. Con/. 
Tbunb. Difi. de hide. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
IRIS fptiria imberbis foliis linearibus, fcapo fubtrifloro tereti, 
germinibus hexagonis. Linn. Syft. Vegetab. p. 91. Jacq* 
Ft. aufir. tab. 4. 
IRIS pratenfis anguftifolia, folio foetido. Bauh. Pin. 32. 
The greater blue Flower-de-luce with narrow leaves. Park* 
Par ad. p. 184. 
Some plants afford fo little diverfity of chara&er, that art 
expreflive name can fcarcely be afligned them ; fuch is the 
preient plant, or Linnaeus would not have given it the inex- 
preffive name of Jpuria t nor we have adopted it. 
This fpecies is diftinguifhed by the narrownefs of its leaves, 
which emit a difagreeable fmell when bruifed, by the colour 
of its flowers, which are of a fine rich purple inclining to 
blue, and by its hexangular germen. 
It is a native of Germany, where, as Profeflor J acquin 
informs us, it grows in wet meadows ; is a hardy perennial, 
thrives in our gardens in almoft any foil or fituation, flowers 
in June, and is propagated by parting its roots in Autumn. 
