IRIS orientalis. Mill. Diftced. 8. 
IRIS tripolitana, Cluf. Hiff.227. * | z: 
IRIS) anguftifolia tripolitanas Park, Par. tab. 185, & 
(3 balophila) minor ; corolla ochroleuca. G. Supra No, 1131. 
IRIS balopbila. Pall. Reif. Ruff. Reich. 3. App. 63. tab. B., 
J. 2. Hort. Kew. 1. 72. Willd. Spe Plea. 233. Vabl 
Enum, 2. 141. (halophylla.) Georg. Befchr. Ruff. Reich. 
UV. 4. p. 3. 671. Cee 
IRIS fala. Pall. lc. ps 2. lib, 2. 461. 
IRIS Guldenfiedtii. Lepech. A&. Petrop. 1781. 1. 192. tab. 8. 
: Georgi I. ¢. 670. ee 
(¢ defertorum) corollz laciniis intimis carulefcentibus, extimis 
lutefcentibus. G. ; : 
IRIS defertorum. Guldenft. Flor. Cauca/. ined. apud Georgi |. ¢. 
672. ; 
Although ochroleuca, balophila, and fpuria, have maintained 
.themfelves till now in the rank of diftin& fpecies, yet after a 
fcrupulous examination of a multitude of fpontaneous, as well 
as garden, {pecimens, we cannot deteét the flighteft charatter 
_ that can be adduced to difcriminate them in any other way 
than as varieties of each other; as which we have enumerated 
_ them above. | 
| Phe aves are fometimes about equal with the ftem, at others — 
far higher; thofe of the fulphur-coloured varieties are paler 
than thofe of the blue ones; all, when bruifed, emit the fam e 
_ difagreeable fcent, as is perceived in our. Common. Stinking 
Gladwyn,. but in a lefs degree ; /lem flexuofe and fheathed all 
_the way by fpathaceous leaflets; from one to five feet high ; 
the éuée of the corolla is:about the third-part of an inch long, 
hexagonally cyathiform, melliferous ; the ungues of the pyyet 
Segments are remarkably ftraight and extended horizontally at 
right angles with the tube, they are lanceolate, concave, 4? 
interfe€ted lengthwife by a flefhy ridge onthe inner furfaces 
the fligmas are archwife incumbent and about the length of the 
angttes of the inner fegments ; outer lip emarginate. 
_ Native of the South of France, Auftria, the Coaft of Bat- 
bary, the Levant, and the fandy defarts of the oriental pre- 
vinces of Ruffia. We are indebted for the prefent specimen _ 
(the balophila of Patras) to Mr. Donn, Curator of pe 
Botanic Garden, Cambridge ; asalfo for another Ruffian variety 
which hada branch and fmaller paler flowers. They are al 
hardy, and bloom from May to J uly : flower fcentlefs, Ge 
or 
io: Gt. for « IRIS OCHROLEUCA” read «IRIS SPURIA (y) acBrolencas” 
No. 875, for IRIS HALOPHILA” read « IRIS SPURIA (2) majo” 
