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Iris Virginica. Virginian Flag, 



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Clafs and Order. 

 TrIANDRIA Monogymia. 



Generic Character.— Vid. N um - 53 1» 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Iris virginica (imberbis) caule fubancipite'; involucris 2 — 3 

 floris ; tubo brcvi ; laminis extirnis recurvato-deflexis, 

 ungues aequantibus ; ftigrnatibus lacinias intimas ere&i- 

 ufculas extimiique peranguftiores ssquantibus, labio in- 

 timo obtufo, dentato, laciniis divaricatis, revolutis. G. 



IRIS virginica. Groin. Virg. 7. (11.) Sp. PL 58. Reich. 1. 

 108. Hort. Kezv. 1. 72- Syfi. Veg. Murr. 90. ed. 13. 

 79. Lamarck Encyc. 3. 300. Jacq.- Coll. 2. 1c. rar. 2. 

 t. 223. Mart. Mill. Die?. IVtlld. Sp. PL 1. 232. Tfa£. 

 jD/^T. 20. Michaux Flor. Bor-Amer. 1.22. 



Rootftock fiefhy, horizontal, covered with a dark brown fkin, 

 putting out many capillaceous tufted fibres. Stem about two feet 

 or more high, downwards ancipital with one fide fharper than 

 the other, upwards roundifh, leafy, branched. Leaves fhorter 

 than the Item, enfiform, fmooth (as is the whole plant) the 

 bundles growing cefpitofely. Involucres green, generally 

 more or lei's fphacelate, 2 — 3 (lowered ; peduncles often longer 

 than thefe. Germen an obtufely-trigonal, flender fhaft, Ihorter 

 than peduncle ; tube trigonal-cyathiform, hollow, (horter than 

 the germen and many times fhorter than the fegments, the 

 outer ones of which are fpathulate-obovate, twice the largeft 

 and more than twice the broadeft, with revolutely deHexed 

 laminae ; inner ones fpathulately or oblanceolately oblong, 

 ftraight and (lightly diverging ; outer ungues divaricately tur- 

 binate, equal to the laminae, their fides towards the bafe revo- 

 lutely deprefTed with a fhort longitudinal carinately prominent 

 gland ; inner ones far the narroweft, conduplicate-convolute, 



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