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purple. The entire plant suggests a dwarf, more narrow-leafed 
!, foliosa, with a yellow flower of the general shape of J. fulva. 
Plant No. 5.—The flower color of this plant 1s very exceptional, 
matching quite closely the Mallow Purple of Ridgway (Plate 12). 
The more usual terms of cerise and old rose have also been applied 
to describe the color. The poise of the flower and the shape of 
the parts are very similar to that of Dorothea K. Williamson. 
The falls are somewhat narrower and more pointed, and the stand- 
ards are oblanceolate, similar in color to the falls, with the same 
Mallow Purple prevailing in the style-branches and crests. It is 
clearly an outstanding flower, and is perhaps the most promising 
one of the seedlings. The plant, however, lacks the vigorous 
growth of Dorothea K. Williamson, and the flower stem is shorter 
and more concealed by the leaves. 
SEEDLINGS FROM Promiscuous Crossincs.—During the 
ent season a large number of seedlings have bloomed for the first 
time. The seed parent of all of these plants was recorded but for 
the most part open pollination occurred and, consequently, the male 
parent was unknown. Many plants of Jris fulva, I. foliosa, 
Dorothea K. Williamson, Iulvala, and our own first generation 
plant of the species cross were growing in a bed close together, and 
it was possible for pollen from any one of these to be carried to 
nres- 
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the flowers of any other. 
Undoubtedly cross pollination involving these different plants 
has occurred, and the result is that the seedlings show a remarkable 
array of variation in form and color. Many of the plants have a 
flower similar in shape to that of Dorothea Kk. Williamson, while 
in others the form and poise of the flower approach Jris fulva or 
I. foliosa. The plants also vary a great deal in their vigor, involv- 
ing marked differences in the length and breadth of the leaves and 
the height of the flower stem. 
A good many of the seedlings produced flowers more or less re- 
sembling those of Plants No. 1 and 2 as described above. They 
showed different shades of bluish purple, combined with varia- 
tions in shape. Other seedlings had flowers with various shades 
of reddish purple; some of these, in shape and poise, approach 
Dorothea K. Williamson, while others had a remarkable resem- 
blance to /ris fulva. 
