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0-2. IRIDACE.E. 



segments eiect-iiicurved ; anthers 

 erect ; style - branches broad, 

 petaloid, terminating in 2 oval 

 lobes, which rise above the 

 anthers and have a transverse 

 stigmatic line at base. 



Garden plant, probably hybri- 

 dised with 7. florcntina, L., or 

 species ; wild in many 

 on plains and hills. — 

 • Nov. — Europe ; western 



other 

 places 

 Sept. . 

 Asia. 



6. M0R.EA, L. 



Iris germanica. 



(Aft^r Robert Moore, an English 

 botanist of the 18th centnry.) 



Perianth funnel-shaped, almost 

 without a tube, segments sub- 

 equal, spreading in the upper 

 half; filaments more or less 

 united in a tube around the 

 style ; anthers erect, appressed to 

 the style-branches, which ter- 

 minate in 2 erect petaloid lobes. 



Flowers pedicellate, 2 or many in each spathe ; leaves few, 

 radical; corm with a fibrous tunic. 



Inner segments conspicuous; ovary beaked M. xerosp'ithn 1 

 Inner segments very small; ovary not beaked -1/. Pavouiu 2 



1. Morsea xerospa.tha, 



MacOwan. Dwarf plant, leaf 1, 

 rather stiff, flat, narrow-linear, 

 2o-70 cm. (10-27 in.) long, and 

 several times longer than stem; 

 flowers like a minute Iris. 4-6 in 

 each spathe; spathes 3-4, cylin- 

 drical, about 25 mm. (1 in.) long, 

 sessile on a short stiff stem, A-alves 

 white-scarious, the outer ones 

 with 6-9 prominent nerves; 

 peiiantli-segments subequal. 15- 

 18 mm. (nearly ^ in.) long, 

 oblong-lanceolate, the upper half 

 lilac, with an orange blotch at 

 base, the latter color, mixed with 

 purple spots, running down the 

 claw ; style-brancbes bifid for 

 half their length, lobes scarioiis, 

 lanceolate-acuminate; ovary with 

 a .slender beak as long as itself; 

 capsule cylindrical, delicately 

 Morsea xerospatha. membranous, crowned by the 



