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MSYlTlNCHlUxM* grandifldrum. 

 Large -flowered Sisyi'incJduxn, 



TRIANDRIA MONOGVNIA. 



Nat. ord. Iride;e Jussieu. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 botany, p. 260.) 



SrSYRINCHIUM.—Supn}, vol. 13. foL 1067. 



S. grandifiorum ; caule stricto glauco striate foliis erectis vaginantibus 

 longiore, spathis bifloris : foliolis erectis altero floribus longiore, peri- 

 authio pedicello subsequali. 



S. grandiflorum. Douglas. 



Perennis, radicibus fibrosis, repentibus. Caulis erectus, striatus, glaucus, 



siniplicissirmis, palmaris v. paulb idtrd. Folia glauca, inferiora squa- 



miformia, superiora erecta, basi vaginantia, apice patentia, caule breviora. 



Spatha erecta, bivalvis, foliolis incequalibus : exteriore linear i-lanceolato, 



fioribus longiore. Perianthium atropurpureum, striatu7n, filamentis stylisque 



sanguineis, antheris luteis. 



This beautiful little herbaceous plant is a native of 

 the North-west of North America, near the great falls of 

 the river Columbia, where Mr. Douglas found it in 1826. 

 It is a hardy herbaceous plant, flowering in May and June, 

 but is at present exceedingly rare, only two or three seeds 

 having grown, and the plants from these increasing very 

 slowly. It appears to love a peat border among bushes. 

 Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural 

 Society. 



A perennial plant, with fibrous, creeping roots. Stem 

 erect, striated, glaucous, quite simple, a span or little more 

 in height. Leaves glaucous, the lower scale-like, the upper 



* The (ria-ve^ty^iov of Theophrastus appears to have been either the 

 modern Iris Sisyrinchium or Trichonema Bulbocodium, both plants nearly 

 related to this. It was so called because it was sought as food by pigs, 



or (Tj/S;. 



