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Variegalcd Iris; 7- i- Genuaiiica, German Iris; 8. /. sambuc'nia, El- 

 tler-sceuled Iris; y. /. sqiudens, Bro.wn-iiowered Iris; 10. I. cristata, 

 Cresled Iris ; 11. I. trkuspis, Trifid-petalled Iris; ]2. I. Xiphiimi, 

 Bull)ous-rooled Iris; 13. /. Pseiuiacoriis, Common Yellow or Water 

 Iris; 14. I.fa'liclissima, Stinking Iris; 15. /. Virginica, Virginian Iris; 

 16. L versicolor. Various-coloured Iris; 17- /. ochroleuca. Pale-yellow 

 Iris; 18. /. t'tv//^/, Spring Iris; 19- ^- -Pe^'sica, Persian Iris; 20. I. gra- 

 mi//e«, Grass-leaved Iris; 21. /. spuria, Spurious Iris; 22. I. Sibirica, 

 Siberian Iris ; 25. I. Martinicensis, Martinico Iris; 24. I. Pavouio, 

 Peacock Iris; 25. /. tuberosa, Siiake's-head iris. 



The first has the root brownish on the outside, while within, 

 knobbed, with pale fibrils: the leaves acute, sometimes shorter, some- 

 limes longer than the Hower: the stem or scape very short, often 

 scarcely an inch in length: germ oblong, bluntly and obscurely three- 

 cornered, an inch long, enclosed within two spathes, ending in the 

 tube of the corolla, which is slender, and from two to three inches 

 in length: all the petals are almost entire, blue or purple, varying 

 much in colour, insomuch that the same llower changes, and from 

 blue becomes more and more red: outer beards blue, inner white, 

 with yellow tips. It is a native of Austria, flowering in April. 



There are varieties with white flowers, with straw-coloured flow- 

 ers, with pale blue flowers, with blush-coloured flowers, with yellow 

 variable flowers, with blue variable flowers. 



The second species has tlic scape simple, round, grooved, a span 

 high: the leaves alternate, sheathing, upright, very finely striated, 

 obscurely waved: the corolla the largest of all the species, very thin: 

 the claws of the larger petals purple on the outside, doited and 

 streaked with purple wilhin; border suborbiculatc, v.-avcd, bent in at 

 top, upright: border of the smaller petals ovate, bent down, with 

 the edge frequently bent back, blunt, of the same colour with the 

 larger ones, but shorter and narrower; the claws bearded within 

 from the flexure to the base with brownish-yellow cilias. It flowers 

 at the end of May or beginning of June, and is a native of the 

 Levant. 



The third has the scape round, striated, simple, upright, a foot 



