differ from us, and are competent to find fpecific diftinclions for 

 each. They are all met with in various parts of the continent, 

 from Denmark to Siberia, from the South of France to Mount 

 Caucafus; near which mountain both the blue and yellow ones 

 were difcovered by Mr. Marschal of Bieberitein, who fays 

 they differ from each other in nothing but colour. They are 

 likewise natives of the Coaft of Barbary. All are faid to affeci 

 either maritime fituations, or fuch inland ones as are moid and 

 have the foil impregnated with fait. Mr. Donn fpeaks of the 

 prefent variety as a native of Germany ; but we do not know 

 on what authority. Monf. Redoute is incorrefct in attributing 

 to the corolla of this variety a tube any ways longer than in 

 that of the others. By fpeaking of the enlarged part of this 

 portion of the flower, we fee that he has taken the neck of the 

 germen for a part of the tube. Our drawing was made from a fpe- 

 cimen fent us by Mr. Donn from Cambridge, where it blooms 

 in the Botanic garden about July. The flower is fcentlefs* 

 For further obfervations on the fpecies, fee No. 1131. 



NOTES. 



To the fynonyms already afcribed to Iris ruthemca in 

 numbers 1123 and 1393, the following one may be added : 



IRIS verna. Georgi befchreib des rujf. Reicbs v. 4. pars 3.^.670. 

 Nee tamen Linmei, quod videndum in textu N'- 1393. 



The above fpecific name having been erroneoufly applied to 

 this plant, by the Ruffian naturaliit, whole work we have cited j 

 may account for its having fo generally pafled for the Linnaean 

 <uerna among our gardeners, to whom the feeds have been pro- 

 bably at fome time tranfmitted from Ruffia under that name. 

 Mr. Pursh thinks that he has met with ruthenica in 

 America. It may be fo. But ftill that plant could not be the 

 Linnsean 'verna ; which we have fhewn in No. 1393 either to 

 be a fmaller variety of crifiata, or a plant much nearer allied tp 

 that than to ruthenica, from which it differs eflentially. C7. 



