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Iris Squalens. Brown-Flowered Iris. 



Oafs and Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia* 



Generic Characlcr. 



Ttrflorefcentia fafciculata. Cor. inferius varie tubulofa ; limbtis 

 peramplus6 partitas, laciniis in&qualibus, alternis magis erectis, 

 perraro cunc\is fuppariter expanfis. Stigm. 3, amplitudine 

 peialoidea, involutim complicata, praediipariliter bilabiata. 

 Cap/, bMpnga tereti-3-6-gona. Sem. numerofa, majufcula, 

 ficco-rarius carnofo baccata ; in univerfum complanata varieque 

 preffa, vix unquam abfolute globofa. G. 



Obs. Genus pro or dine fpeciebus mtutime gravatum, forte etlam nimtis 

 ttfque nhnis anomalh. Radix nunc tunicato bnlbofa ; nunc ex rbizomatibus 

 perennantibus aggejio-coagmentatis frues crafj'a, Jo/ido-carnofa, prorepenter 

 ft quaquaverjum product a ; perraro femel tuberofa. Foliatio bifaria, turn 

 piano en/iformis, turn canaliculata y raro quadrangula. CauVis de Jubnulh 

 per fpecies tripedalem acquirens altitudinem. Stamina libera, trifariam fpec- 

 tantia, tuba impojita. Capfula conacea atque firme cartilagineo-rigejcens. 

 Semina bifenalia, fapius lavia, raro tuberculata. In perfica et alata in- 

 fiorefcentia fubuniflora et partim fubterranea, pene Croci injiar. G. 



Specific Character and Synonyms, 



IRIS fqualens. Willd. Sp. PL t. 228. Exclufo fynonymo 

 Jacquini. Hori. Kew. 1. 69. Exclufo fynonymo Jac- 

 quini. 



Although in our account of Iris pullida, No. 685, we have 

 confidered this as a mere variety of I r 1 s fambucina, No. 187 

 of this work, excluding Ikis fqualens altogether ; neverihelefs, 

 that we may fatisfy fuch of our readers as may not entirely 

 coincide with us in opinion, we have thought it right to give 

 a figure of it, under the name by which it has been ufually 

 known ; indeed it was only in compliance with the general, 

 though erroneous, appellation of the later Botanifts, that we 

 did not reftore Linn^us/s name of fambucina to our pallida 

 and apply this of fqualens to our fambucina and its varieties. 



Ourdrawing was taken at Meffrs. Grimwood and Wykes's 

 Nurfery in May 1803. It is perfedly hardy and eafily pro- 

 pagated by parting its roots. 



