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1. Tigridia pavonia, Tiger-Flower, from Mexico : the scaly-coated 

 bulb, planted out in summer, sends up a simple or branching stem 2° high, 

 bearing broadish ensifbrm and plaited leaves, and 1 to 3 very showy large 

 flowers (5-' or 6' across) crimson-red with a yellow middle and violet-tinged 

 centre, spotted with purple or crimson, opening in sunshine, but only once 

 and for a few hours. 



2. Gladl olus, Gladiolus or Corn-Flag. Familiar garden plants, raised 

 from solid bulbs or corms, sending up tall and simple leafy stems, terminating 

 in a spike of flowers all turned to one side, very showy late in summer, the 

 6-cleft perianth more or less oblique, or as it were 2-lipped ; filaments slender. 



G. communis is the old-fashioned hardy species, with rather few rosc- 

 red (rarely white) flowers ; the filaments longer than the anthers. 



G. Byzantinus is larger in all its parts, with more flowers in the spike 

 and more showy ; filaments shorter than the linear anthers. 



G. blandus, of the Cape of Good Hope, is the parent of the tender white 

 or pale rose-colored varieties. 



G. psittacinus is a tall and robust species, its numerous large flowers 

 with very broad divisions, yellow, mixed or bordered with scarlet. This is the 

 parent of G. Gandavensis, now so much cultivated, and from which so many 

 fine varieties have been produced, with scarlet, red and yellow, orange, and 

 other colors. 



3. Iris, Iris, Flower-de-Luce. Man. p. 459. The Crested Dwarf Iris, 

 No. 4, is in some gardens. 



* A bearded crest on the base of the three outer divisions of the perianth. 



I. pumila, Dwarf Iris. Stem very short ; the violet and purple flower 

 close to the ground, with obovate divisions, hardly exceeding the short sword- 

 shaped leaves, in early spring. 



I. Germanica, Common Flower-de-Lcce of the gardens ; stems 2° 

 high, several-flowered ; flowers scentless, very large, the outer reflexed divis- 

 ions deep violet, the inner erect ones about as large, obovate, lighter-colored 

 and bluer; anthers as long as the filament. 



I. sambucina, Elder-scented F., is taller, 3° or 4° high, and longer- 

 leaved ; the flower not so large and later in the summer, the outer divisions 

 less reflexed, violet, but whitish and yellowish toward the base, painted with 

 deeper-colored lines or veins ; upper divisions pale or dull blue ; anthers shorter 

 than the filament. 



I. Florentina, Florence or Sweet F. Less tall than the Common 

 F., with broader leaves, and white or bluish faintly sweet-scented flowers. 



I. variegata, Variegated F. Stem several-flowered; divisions of the 

 perianth oblong-obovate, the inner ones yellow, the outer white or whitish with 

 dark-purple veins, and usually purple toward the extremity. 



* * No beard or crest to the flower. 



I. graminea, Grass-leaved F. Leaves and 1 - 3-flowered stem slen 

 der; flower small, with narrow divisions, violet-purple, with yellow stripes on 

 the outer ones. 



I. Persica, Persian Iris. Dwarf, nearly stemless from a kind of bulb, 

 from which the flower rises on a long tube, earlier than the leaves ; this is del- 

 icately fragrant, bluish, with a deep-purple spot at the tip of the outer divis- 

 ions, the inner divisions very small and spreading. A choice house-plant. 



4. Pardanthus Chinensis, Blackberry Lilt, — so called because the 

 cluster of black berry-like seeds after the valves of the pod fall looks like a 

 blackberry ; — a common plant in gardens, the foliage. &c. resembling an 



