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Tris SUBBIFLORA. Purple Frac. 
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. “Generic Chara&ier.—Vid, Ne 489. & 986. 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
ARIS fubbifora (barbata; fubuniflora ; rhizoma craffum, car. 
nofum, repens ;) foltis lato-enfatis, extimis falcatis; 
caule fafciculis fterilibus parum breviore, fimplici, fo- 
liolis vagis fubfpathaceis veftito ; corolle tubo germen 
feffile cylindraceum fex{triatum fubzquante ; (ceterts 
germanice fupra No. 670.) G. 
IRIS /ubbiflora. Brotero Flor. Lufit. 1. 50. 
IRIS latifolia major xxii. Cluf. Hift. 222. Ic. 
IRIS biflora. Ger. Herb. Emac. 53. f. 5 Nec Linnei, 
IRIS biflora lufitanica. Lod. Ic. tab. 68. Fi ® 
LIRIO 1x0. Lufitanis, | 
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A plant entirely diftin& from the difora of Linn&us, the 
fpecimen of which (as depofited by him in C LirroRp’s Herba- 
rium) is now in the poffeffion of Sir Josepu Banks. That has 
feveral flowers, with the tube of the corolla feveral times 
longer than the germen, and is altogether a far {maller plant, 
approaching very near to pumila ; of which perhaps it is a mere 
variety ; and moft likely not a native of Portugal. From ger- 
manica our {pecies differs on the other hand, in being {maller, 
in the black-red colour of the corolla, in fragrance, in having 
afimple and generally one-flowered ftem, inftead of one with 
branches and feveral flowers; as alfo in having a cylindrical, 
and not a trigonal germen; the leaves are alfo of a yellower 
hue. The ftem is from half to a foot high. 
_Grows in chalky fpots near Lifbon. Sir Taomas Gace was 
Kind enough to permit us to examine a part of his herbarium, 
where we found a fpecimen of it, gathered near the above city b 
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