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IRIS RUTHENICA. (3.) Picmy Iris. 
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Generic Charafler.—Vid. N* 669, 787, 986. 
Specific Charader and Synonyms. 
IRIS ruthenica; (cafpitofa ; rhizoma horizontale ramentis 
Sphacelatis hirfutum ; uniflora ; imberbis ;) fafciculis fteri- 
libus plurifoliis; foliis angufte gramineis, nervofis, 
deorfum equitantibus ; caule his breviore extrafoliaceo 
foliolis fubbinis caulinis brevibus; fpatha bivalvi her- 
bacea lanceolata; germine ovato rotundato-trigono quam 
pedicellus 3—4-plo breviore; corolla infundibuliformi 
fuperne reflexo-patente; tubo quam limbus aliquoties 
breviore, quam germen bis terve longiore, rotundato- 
trigono; limbi laciniis extimis triplo latioribus, unguibus 
turbinato-conflexis ligulato-concavis lamina elliptica 
obtufa recurva parum lJatiore duplo longioribus; intimis- 
angufte f{pathulatis paulo brevioribus, unguibus lineari- 
canaliculatis ere¢tis, lamina ligulato-ovali acutiore 
fublatiore revoluta; ftigmatibus latitudine unguium 
exteriorum, ad mediam laminam ufque produ€iis; inte- 
rioris labii fegmentis parabolice rotundatis reflexis 
imbricato-collateralibus erofo-denticulatis; labio exte- 
riore’ minuto convoluto-mucronato apice  retufo 
g reflexo. G. pears 
IRIS ruthenica, (a.) Supra No. 1123. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1.117. 
IRIS alpina. Herb. Pallas. Jpecim. Sibiria lefum. 
IRIS humilis. Mar. @ Bieb. Fl, Taur. cauc. 1. 33. 
(@.) pedicello fpatham aquante ; tubo corolle exferto, G. 
The publication of the prefent plant, which can only be 
confidered as a more luxuriant and perfe& fpecimen of that 
already defcribed in No. 1123, was unintentional, We had 
long wifhed to procure a drawing of Iris verna for the prefent 
work ; when Mr. Warttey, of Brompton, kindly informed us 
that he had numerous fpecimens of it in bloom, which he faid 
had been raifed from American feed; and the prefent plate was 
ready for publication, before we had convinced ourfelves that 
the plant reprefented could not be the one we were in fearch of, 
although generally but erroneoufly paffing for it. Verna was 
firft inftituted a fpecies by Gronovius in his “ Flora Virginica,” 
