AN 
ENCYCLOPADIA OF HORTICULTURE. 
Tris—continued. 
Fig. 332. IRIS VERSICOLOR, showing Habit and detached 
Portion of Inflorescence. 
I. versicolor (various-coloured).* fl. clustered; limb claret- 
purple, under 2in. deep ; falls obovate-unguiculate, reflexing half- 
base; standards oblanceolate -spathulate, light claret- purple. 
June. l. ensiform, rather glaucdus. Stem lft. to 2ft. high, terete, 
forked low down, with two or three clusters of flowers beside the 
end one. North America, 1732: A common and handsome species. 
See Fig, 332, (B. M. 21.) 
I. virescens (greenish). fl., tube greenish-yellow, lin. to 1}in. 
żin. to gin. broad, — streaked in the lower half with 
dull purple ; beard bright yellow ; standards oblong-unguiculate, 
dull yellow, łin broad, the claw spotted and streaked with green 
and dull purple. Apriland May. l. as in 7. lutescens. Europe. 
According to Mr. Baker, this is the least ornamental or attractive 
of all the bearded Irises. 
"pores tat limb 2hin. deep, bright 
; falls round-unguicula ed half-way down ; lamina 
in. broad, lin. to Iai. ber? ni an oblanceolate. 
Spathulate, deep lilac, less than jin. broad. June. i 
way down ; the roundish lamina fin. to lin. broad, cuneate at the | 
long ; limb 2in. deep ; falls oblong, cuneately narrowed to a claw, | 
Iris—continued. 
to 2ft. long, —— broad. Bim. As. or, moi high, forked, 
compresse war e base, u North Ameri 
1788 E M 703) X pwards. No merica, 
Sect. II. Xiphions. 
I. alata (winged).* fl., tube cylindrical, 3in. to 6in. long; limb 
bright lilac-purple, Sin. deep; falls oblong, lin. broad, bright 
ellow at throat; inner segments oblanceolate-spathulate, lin. 
ong, s — horizontally ; spathe sessile, with lanceolate 
valves, din. to in. long. October to December. J. sub-erect, 
lanceolate, acuminate, nearly lft. long. Spain, Algiers, &c., 
1801. A strikingly handsome species. (B. R. 1876.) 
I. anglica (English). A garden synonym of I. Yiphioides. 
I. caucasica (Caucasian). M. in one-flowered spathes, scentless ; 
limb pale yellow, lyin. deep ; falls obovate, sin. broad, — 
only in the upper third; stigmas broad, pale yellow, with deltoi 
crests. February and March, J. four to tive, sharply falcate, 
lanceolate. Stem one to three-flowered, or very short, Caucasus 
to Persia. See Fig. 333. (S. B. F. G. 255.) 
I. filifolia (thread-leaved).* jl., tube lin. long above the ovary ; limb 
bright — purple, afin deep s orbicular lamina of the falls lin. 
deep, shorter than the panduriform claw, and keeled with bright 
yellow at the base; stan late 
to 4in. lo 
lower ones 1 
of stem, flat, and mottled wit deep pw 
58 2ft. high, ending in a single spathe. 
1869, ; 
of Baker). 
dards —— ate — —— n, 
green lanceolate valves. l. or more; 
* ; scarious outside ones at base 
rple. Stem slender, 
Gibraltar, 
M. 5928.) SYN. Xiphion tingitanum (of B. M. 5981, not 
, with 
liform, over 1ft. lo 
‘L Histrio (actor).* jl, tube Zin. to 4in. long, filiform, exserted: 
——— ute deep ; falls copiously and 
ut two to a tuft, and produced with several 4 1 
: fate in length. Palestine, 1873. See Fig. ia nl 
juncea sh-like). fA., tube slender, lin. to lżin. long; lin 
ss ——— be Joop; lamint of falls orbicular, lin. 
