turbinately patent, thofe of the outer fegments twice the 
broadeft and traverfed Jongitudinally inwards by a narrow 
fillet of white cilias with deep yellow tips, inner ones, convo- 
Jute ; outer laminz obovate-oblong, flattifh, inner ones oblong- 
obovate, rather the broadeft, upright connivent, while the 
outer ones are revolutely defle€ted. Stigmas pearl-coloured, 
fomewhat oblong, outer lip entire, rounded; inner bipartite, 
fegments acuminate, fubferrate, upright recurved, not revo- 
Jute as in Iris germanica. Germ fubfeffile, trigonal-oblong, 
6-fulcate, longer in proportion than that of germanica ; but fill 
fhorter than the tube. Whole corolla greyifh white, outer 
fegments with a fomewhat bluer tint; fides of the ungues with 
brownifh or greenifh yellow veins. Blooms in May. 
A native of Italy and other parts of the South of Europe; 
grows plentifully on the walls of Florence ; cultivated here by 
Gerarbde in 1596. Desronraines found it in Algiers, 
where it is fown with germanica about graves; he doubts if 
they are fpecifically diftiné. ae 
The dried root of this plant was formerly ufed in mediciné, 
but is now confined to fome infignificant lozenges as an €x- 
pectorant, and to the manufa@ory of the perfumer, to whom It 
is known by the name of Orris or Orrice-root, being ufed to 
give to certain articles, fuch as hair-powder, the fcent 
violets ; that which is ufed for thefe purpofes however is import 
éd from Leghorn, as what is produced in our climate has neither — 
the flavour nor other qualities of the Italian root. Ray {ays 
the pigment called Verdelis or Iris-green is made from the 
flowers of this fpecies, while Hatrer and others fay from 
thofe of Ix1s germanica. : a sc oe 
It is perfettly hardy ; is propagated by parting its roots 
Autumn; not quite fo common in our gardens as Iris ge 
manica, from which it differs in the colour of its flowers and 
leaves, in the {cent of its dried root, in having its fpathes more 
fphacelate or membranous, and the tube of its corolla not 0 — 
much longer than its germ as in that. Sxynner has derive?” 
Orrice from Iris, G, : 
