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17. Iris loyteiii. Bolss. Fl. Or. v., p. 131. 

 Dry thickets, Lebanon, 2,000 feet. P. 



18. Iris Jiclcna. Boiss. Fl. Or. v., p. 132. Southern Desert. 



19. Iris pcrsica. L. Sp. 59. Nonvidi. 



20. Iris fiorentina. L. Sp. 55. 



21. Iris tiiberosa. L. Sp. 58. 



Hilly districts. Area, Mediterranean region. 



22. Iris germanica. L. Sp. 55. 



Plains ; common. Area, Central and Southern Europe. 



23. Iris pallida. Lam. Diet, iii., p. 294. Galilee. 



24. Iris hayiiei. Baker. Card. Chron. vi. (1876), p. 710. 

 Mount Gilboa. P. 



Named by Mr. Baker after my fellow-traveller, its discoverer, the late 

 W. Amherst Hayne, Trin. Coll., Cambr., to whom I am indebted for most 

 of the Moab and Gilead localities. 



25. Iris reticulata. M. B. Taur. Cauc. i., p. 34. 

 Bashan, Gilead, Galilee. 



26. Iris catuasica. Hoffm. Com. Soc. Ph. Mosq. i., p. 40, 

 Hebron, Jud^ean wilderness. 



27. Iris fcEtidissivia. L. Sp. 57. Fetid Iris, or Gladdon. 

 Area, Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, Canaries. 



28. Iris hcylandiana. Boiss. Fl. Or. v., p. 130. 

 Plain of the Orontes. 



29. Iris sari. Baker. Gardn. Chron. v., 1876, p. 780. 

 Lake Huleh. P. 



There are at least three other species of Iris in Gilead, one of them 

 the largest and finest of the genus I ever saw, the flower a deep uniform 

 maroon purple ; but none of which have I been able to identify. There 

 are also two other unidentified species from the woods of Galilee. 



30. Gladiolus segetum. Gawl. Bot. Mag., pi. 719. 



In corn-fields. Area, Mediterranean region, Madeira, Canaries. 



