54 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
Common name 
Mist flower 
Monk’s hood 
Mourning bride 
Mullein pink 
Peony 
Periwinkle 
Petunia 
Phlox 
Phlox 
Poppy, California 
Poppy, oriental 
Red-hot poker plant 
Sea lavender 
Shasta daisy 
Silver thistle 
Snapdragon 
Sneezeweed 
Soapwort 
Stocks 
Stokes’ aster 
Sunflower 
Sunflower 
Sweet Sultan 
Sweet William 
Tickseed 
Tickseed 
Tobacco 
Yellow day-lily 
Youth-and-old-age 
Botanical name 
Eupatorium ageratoides 
Aconitum autumnale 
Scabiosa caucasica 
Lychnis Coronaria 
Paeonia officinalis 
Vinca rosea 
Petunia (mixed) 
Phlox paniculata (pink) 
Phlox paniculata (white) 
Eschscholizia californica 
Papaver orientale 
Tritoma Pfitzerir 
Statice Limonium 
Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum 
Eryngium amethystinum 
Antirrhinum (mixed) 
Helenium autumnale 
Saponaria Vaccaria 
Matthiola incana 
Stokesia cyanea 
Helianthus annuus 
Helianthus mollis 
Centaurea moschata 
Dianthus barbatus 
Coreopsis lanceolata 
Coreopsis coronata 
Nicotiana affinis 
Hemerocallis flava 
Zinnia elegans 
IRIS 
This showy, hardy outdoor plant is very popular, and its 
common, less expensive varieties are extensively used. It 
is to be regretted, however, that advantage is so rarely taken 
of the many beautiful new forms which have been intro- 
duced into this country. The comprehensive collection, at 
the Missouri Botanical Garden, located in the central section 
of the perennial garden, in front of the Linnean house, rep- 
resents most of the common and many rare types, and 
should prove of value in popularizing some of the better 
varieties which are not as yet very widely known. 
The iris may be popularly divided into three classes: 
German or tuberous rooted, Japanese or fibrous rooted, and 
Spanish or bulbous. 
In the German group may be included Iris germanica, I. 
florentina, I. pallida, I. flavescens, I. plicata, I. neglecta, I. 
lurida, I. sambucina, I. squalens, and 1. hybrida. Owing to 
their diversity of origin, the varieties of this group range in 
color from pure white through mauve and blue to purple. 
The flower stalks are branched, extending above the light 
green, flat, sword-like leaves. Two flowers are usually borne 
on a stem, the inner segments curved inward, the outer curv- 
