by its side within the spathe there*is a small awl-shaped 
thread, the abortive representation of a second peduncle. 
Corolla pale yellow, delicate ; nearly the whole of the outer 
segments, and the claws of the inner, streaked with pale 
brown ; segments undulate, crenulate, especially towards 
their extremities, of about equal length ; outer ones rolled 
backwards, bearded with yellow hairs, spathulated, tapering 
gradually towards their base ; inner ones the broadest, bent 
across the centre of the flower above the stigmata, oblong 
and decurrent upon long winged claws, which are slenderer 
than those of the outer segments. All the segments when 
decaying have their claws adpressed to the style, and their 
lamine folded over the middle of the flower, so as entirely 
to close it. Tube exceeding an inch in length ; limb, in- 
cluding the claws, about two and a half inches. Stamens 
shorter than the stigmata ; filaments subulate, adhering to 
the corolla as high as the base of the hairy line ; anthers 
white, equal in length to the free portion of the filaments. 
Stigmata broader than the portion of the reflected segments 
of the corolla, which they cover, about one inch and a quarter 
long, upper lip erect, its segments pointed, inciso-serrated. 
Style three-sided, free for about half an inch, below which 
it is united to the tube of the corolla. Germen half an inch 
long, green, trigonous, marked along the middle of each 
side by a slightly prominent line, opposite to the insertion 
of the dissepiments. Ovules obovate, attached to the cen- 
tral column. 
This is certainly the Iris /utescens of the authors above quoted; 
though Stevpex (Nomenclator Botanicus) says it is not that of 
Lamarck; and he refers the I. lutescens of WiLLpDENow and 
Hort. Kew. to I. virescens of Dz Canpoute, which SprenGeL 
again considers to be I. variegata ; but this species, as figured in 
Bot. Mag. t. 16, is held distinct from our plant, by its many-flow- 
ered stem, and by the ee of its spatha. The I. lutescens 
of SPRENGEL, erroneously attributed to Lamarck, is quite dif- 
ferent from our plant; and it is at once distinguished by the ob- 
tuse upper-lip of its stigma, and the shortness of its stem. It is, 
ae Y me of the modifications of I. pumila, var. lutea, Bot. 
ag. t. : 
The subject of the present article was given to us by DaviD 
Fatconer, Esq. in whose garden at Carlowrie, near Edinburgh, 
(distinguished especially for being rich in this genus), it flower- 
ed in May, 1828; but our figure was taken from a second speci- 
men, sent by him from the garden of Messrs. Dickson & Co. 
seedsmen, in Edinburgh. 
According to Lamarck, this species of Iris is a native of hilly, 
stony: places in France and Germany. GRranHam. 
