IEIDACEAE. 



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probably grow well in southern Florida. Plants taken to the New York 

 Botanical Garden flowered freely under glass, and from one of these was made 

 Miss Eaton 's painting, reproduced as a frontispiece for this book. 



2. FREESEA Eekl. 



Herbs with fibrous-coated eorms, narrow leaves and showy yellow or white 

 flowers in unilateral spikes, each flower subtended by 2 spathe-like bracts. 

 Perianth with a curved funnelform tube and au expanded slightly 2-lobed limb, 

 its somewhat unequal segments oblong; stamens borne on the perianth-throat; 

 filaments filiform; anthers linear, sagittate. Ovary 3-celled, many-ovuled; 

 style filiform, its short branches 2-cleft. Capsule oblong, loeulicidally 3-valved. 

 Seeds turgid. [Name not explained.] A monotypic South African genus. 



1. Freesea refracta (Jacq.) Klatt. 

 FREESEA. (Fig. 108.) Conn ovoid to 

 subglobose, 1' long or more. Leaves 

 4'-10' long, mostly basal, about 3" 

 wide, acute; stem l-li high, flexuous, 

 simple or few-branched ; spike spread- 

 ing nearly at right angles, 2'-4' long, 

 several-flowered, bracts oblong-lanceo- 

 late, 8" long or less; perianth I'-li' 

 long, the limb much shorter than the 

 tube. [Gladiolus refractus Jacq.] 



In fields, spontaneous or persistent 

 after cultivation. Native of South Africa. 

 Flowers in spring. Races differ in size and 

 color of the flowers. 



Gladiolus species, CORN-FLAG, GLA- 

 DIOLIUS, grown in gardens, in several 

 races, flower in spring and summer ; 

 the style-branches are undivided. 



Iris germanica L., FLEUR DE Lis, 

 grown in gardens, flowers iu spring, and 

 other species of Iris are occasionally 

 cultivated. Jones records I. virginica 

 L., North American, and I. violacea 

 Sweet, of southern Europe. 



Antholyza aethiopica L., South 



African, with foliage similar to that of Gladiolus, the reddish-yellow flowers 

 with a curved tube, is commonly grown as a garden flower. 



Tigridia Pavonia (L. f.) Ker., TIGER-FLOWER, Central American, bulbous, 

 with linear leaves often 1 long, tapering at each end, simple stems about 2 

 high, bearing few or solitary yellow or orange, usually mottled flowers 4'-6' 

 broad, the perianth-segments of two dissimilar series of 3 each, the larger ones 

 spreading, is occasionally grown in flower-gardens. [Ferraria Pavonia L. f.] 



Tritonia crocosmaeflora Lemoine, MONTBRIETIA, South African, of hy- 

 brid origin, grown in gardens, is a bulbous plant 3-4 high, with narrowly 

 linear leaves about 1 long, and showy orange flowers, sessile in terminal pan- 

 icles, its perianth-segments narrowly oblong. 



A scarlet-flowered species of Ixia, with linear leaves about 8' long and 2V' 

 wide, the very slender corolla-tube 1' long, the corolla-limb about $' wide, was 

 seen growing in the lawn at Norwood in 1914. Ixias are natives of South 

 Africa. 



