of the ftem, upper cauliné ones tathér inflated and fubimbris 
cately difpofed. Flowers much larger than in Irts xipbium } 
icentlefs ; tube as. in that; ‘outer ungues quite ftraight, hori- 
zontally patent, convolute-concave, twice broader than the 
{tigmas which they contain, traverfed by a low mid-ridge con- 
tinuing to about the middle of the lamina, where it becomes 
yellow and lefs prominent; laming dependently recurved, 
round-ovate, equal to or even longer than the ungues, far 
broader, emarginately fplit, fubundulately crifp at the edge ; 
inner ones upright, far fhorter, {patulately obovate, convolute- 
concave, fomewhat fpoon-fhaped, fubconnivent, emarginate, 
upwards erofe ; ftigmas fharply keeled, about the length of the 
outer ungues ; Inner lip bipartite, revolute ; fegments parabo- 
lical, ferrulates; outer bidentately parted; anthers and fila- 
ments blackifh purple;. pollen white; varies with deep blue, 
violet, and white flowers ; Capfule lanceolate-oblong, acutely 
triquetral, fubinflated. | ey : 
_A native of the Pyrenees. We are uncertain if Desron- 
TAINES means precilely this {pecies or xiphium, or fome other 
that has been ufually deemed a variety, | 
, The name of “ Englifh Iris,” which we find fo commonly 
given to it by the elder Botanifts and even by the modern 
Florifts, was acquired from the plant’s having been firft intro- 
_ duced into the Low-Countries from England, moft probably 
without any notice of its true habitat, and hence prefumed.a 
native of our country by thofe that received them: Ciustus 
fays, that on his firft arrival here in 1571, he fought for it wild, 
until he was.informed by Lose of its being only cultivated in 
certain gardens near Briftol, where it had been moft, probably 
imported by fome veffel from Spain or Portugal. Gerarde 
. Includes it among the Britifh plants, in which he has been 
followed by Dr. Wirnertne in his Botanical Arrangements ; 
but Parkinson was aware of its real habitat, 
Flowers in June. Hardy and of eafy culture, feeding 
freely. The belt bulbs are imported yearly by the Seedfmen 
from Holland, and fhould be put in the ground early in the 
Autumn, G, - 
