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SIsyRINCHIUM GRAMINEUM. Grass-LEAVED 
| _» SISYRINCHIUM. 
= Clafs aud Order. 
GYNANDRIA TRIANDRIA. 
Generic Charaéer. 
_Spatha 2-phylla. Petala 6-plana. Cap/. 3-locularis infera 3-valvis. 
—— Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. 
SISYRINCHIUM See ate caule ancipiti lato, germinibus © 
abris. 
SISYRINCHIUM anguftifolium foliis lineari-gladiolatis, pe | 
dunculis longioribus. Mill, Dig. 
SISYRINCHIUM ceruleum parvum, gladiato caule, | virgt | 
nianum. Pluk. alm. 348. t.61.f-1. 
BERMUDIANA graminea, flore minore ceruleo. Dill. Elth. 
: | 49. t. 41. f. 49. EE: 
GLADIOLUS ceruleus hexapetalus caule etiam gladiato. 
eos - Banifl. virg. 1926. : 
_ Ina former Number of this Work, we gave a figure of the 
_Targe variety of Sifyrinch. Bermud. of Linn. regarding it as 
a diftinét fpecies, and naming it iridzoides, conformably to 
DiiLentus’s fpecific defcription; we regret now that we did 
not continue to it the name of Bermudiana (it being the true 
Bermudas plant) and which cannot with propriety be applied — 
to the prefent f{pecies, a native of Virginia, far more diminu- 
tive, with flowers much fmalter, of a paler blue colour, a 
much hardier plant alfo, and of more ready growth; it is in- 
deed a truly hardy perennial, adapted to the open border, in 
which it will grow readily, and produce abundance of flower- 
ing ftems in June and July; the flowers expand to the fun, — ae 
_ and are followed by numerous feed-veffels which ripen their 
_ feeds, by which the plant may be increafed, or by parting its 
roots in the autumn. Its ftalk affords an excellent example 
of the caulis anceps. We readily embrace the opportunity here — e 
afforded us of corre€ting an error in regard to the hardinefs of 
the Sifyrinch. iridioides, which we were led into partly by Mir- 
LER's account, and partly from obferving the plant to furvive a 
mild winter in the open ground ; we have fincé found that itisa 
tender plant, and to be ranked with thofe of the greenhoufes — j 
an additional proof of its being a diftin& f{pecies from the one 
‘here figured, which has long* been cultivated in our gardens. 
_ ® By Mr, Jacos Bonar, in 1693. Ait. Kean 
