IRIS Sifyrinchium. Linn. Spec. Pl. ed. 2.1.59. Hort. Kew. 
1.74. Thunb, Diff. n. 25. Cavan. le. 2. 74. tab. 
193. Desfont. Flor. Ati. 1. 36. Flor. Grec. Sibth. 
1. 30. fab. 42. Lil. a Redoute. 1. tab. 29. Brotero, 
Fl. Lufit. 1. 52%. Vahl. enum. 2. 144. Willd. Sp. 
Pl. 1. 234. 
SISYRINCHIUM minus, Hort. Evjiet. eft, ord. 3. fol. 9. f. 1. 
SISYRINCHIUM majus. Park. Par. 170. tab. 169. f. 6. 
Ger. emac. 103. fo 1. Cluf. Hil. 1. 216 cum Ie. 
Nofehla. Liu/itanis. 
Oss. Corolla in Flora greca et Redoutzi Liliaccis diffecdim exbibita 
tubo falfe donatur. 
lla 
Descr. Bulb-tuber about the fize of a {mall chefnut, with 
coarfe brown reticulated cartilagineo-fibrous integuments 3 
leaves 6—g inches long, narrow; flowers about an inch and 
half long, 3—5 opening in fucceffion; /eeds numerous, f{mall, 
of a reddifh brown colour: varies with blue, purple, white, 
and with yellow corollas. In the later botanical works the 
. corolla of this {pecies is defcribed, and even exhibited in diffec- 
' tions annexed to the figures of it, as furnifhed with a long 
tube; but a careful infpeftion fhews, that what has been 
miftaken for the tube of the corol/a is in reality the upper fterile 
part of the germex, in which the /epsa are perceptible although 
’. the ovula are obliterated or nearly fo; and when the corolla 
decays, it is feen to part from the fummit of its fuppofed tube, 
leaving the fame cicatrix that is ufually perceptible on the ends 
of the germens of this genus when the corolla has fallen from 
them. Notwitftanding the plant has been known from the 
days of Gzraxrp (1597) inour gardens, we had never met-with 
it until this fummer at Mr. Vere’s, where it had been received 
from Gibraltar. . 
The interior of the Bulb-tuber is faid to be eaten by the 
children in Spain and Portugal, by way of nuts; whence the 
appellation given it by Parxtnson and Gerarp of “ Spanifh 
Nut.” Native of Spain, Portugal, Sicily, the Grecian Iflands, 
and the Coaft of Barbary. Blooms in May. Should be 
— in the greenhoufe or garden-frame from fevere 
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NOTE. . 
No, 693, I, 25 for ** Monza Iaiprorpes,” tcad ** In1s Mor 20ap8s.”” 
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