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 Iris Halophila. Long-Leaved Flag. 



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C/<z/> a//^ Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Char abler. — Fid. N um - 787. 



Specific Char ail er and Synonyms. 



IRIS halophila foliis ftri&iufculis fcapum excedentibus ; fafci- 

 culis fubtrinis ; fpatha magna cymbiformi condupli- 

 catim atque cufpidatim ultra florem produfta j laciniis 

 extimis rotatim patentibus ; germine alato-hexagono 

 tubo pluries longiore. G. 



IRIS halophila. Pall. It. 3. App. 63. /. 13. / 2. Hort. Kew. 

 1. 72. Willd. Sp. PL 1. 233. 



We confefs that wc are unable at prefent to detect any 

 other diftin&ions between this and Iris fpuria (fupra 58) than 

 that this is altogether a much larger plant and pofleffes con- 

 siderably more rigidity both in the leaves and ftem than that ; 

 to which may be added a far greater elongation of the outer 

 valve of the fpathe j yet there is a difference in their general 

 *ppearance, though not eafily expreffed, that makes it difficult 

 for us to confider them as mere varieties of each other ; be- 

 sides that their habitats are widely diftant, this being a native 

 of the fait marfhy fpots of Siberia, the other of the moift 

 meadows in Germany. 



Our fpecies is among the talleft of the genus, the ftem 

 being three feet or more high and the leaves fometimes four ; 

 thefe yield the fame offenfive fmell, when bruifed, as thofe of 

 fpuria; they are very fmooth, even, ftriated, and linear. 



None of its characters have as yet varied by culture, though 

 introduced into our gardens as far back as 1780, by Dr. 

 Peter Pallas. Is not very common in our collections, 

 though of as eafy culture and as hardy as any of the genus. 

 Approaches ventricofa, but that is fharter with a leaflefs ftem 

 a «d a more inflated fpathe. G» 



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