himfelf. It very rarely has two flowers; and not one plant in 
fix hundred, according to Brorero, has three. 
Our prefent {pecimen had been cultivated in the fame 
garden for fourteen or fifteen years, and there it was never 
feen in bloom before laft May. 
Subbifera would have been a’ more: appropriate fpecific 
name than /ubdiflora ; the circumftance of the fame root fome- 
times throwing up flowering-ftems, at different feafons of the 
year (fpring and autumn) being what was intended to be ex- 
preffed by it. By the Portuguefe it is called the Red Iris. 
The corolla is very like to, but fmaller than that of germanica. 
It is by far the moft fragrant of the genus known tous. Is 
faid to vary with pale fulphur-coloured flowers. 
Seems to have been known to the older Botanifts; but 
we never met with it in bloom till now. G, 
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