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pedicels are very short, perianth-tube slender, ij to 3 

 in. long, limb bright lilac, 2 in. long ; falls obovate- 

 cuneate, f in. broad ; standards rather shorter, oblanceo- 

 late, erect. The style branches are an inch long, crests 

 deltoid. Native of California and Oregon. A variety 

 flava is referred to in The Garden of Sept. 5, 1896. 

 No experience can here be given of the cultivation of a 

 plant known to be true /. macrosiphon. 



6. I. Hartwegi, Baker in Card. Chron., 1876, 323. 

 The leaves are firm | to I ft. long, J to ^ in. broad, 

 finely veined. The stem is 6 in. long, one-headed with 

 a single linear leaf low down ; spathes one to two 

 flowered; outer valves lanceolate and green, ij to 2 in. 

 long ; pedicel produced, not, as in the last, very short. 

 The perianth-tube is \ to \ in. long ; limb pale yellow, l| 

 in. long ; falls with an oblong blade, J in. broad, shorter 

 than the haft ; standards as long, oblanceolate, ^ in. 

 broad. The style-arms are narrow f in. broad ; crests 

 divergent, obtuse. Native of California, first gathered 

 by Hartweg in 1848. For culture, see chapter on 

 cultivation, u Californian Irises." 



7. I. Grant-Dllffii, Baker, Handbook Iridaceae, p. ^ ; 

 Bot. Mag. y t. 7604. This very distinct new Iris was 

 first collected by Mr B. T. Lowne, who gathered it on 

 the banks of the river Kishou in 1864, and subsequently 

 by Sir M. E. Grant-Duff, in the plain of Esdraelon. By 

 the latter gentleman, the plant was introduced to culti- 

 vation and the plant was figured in the Botanical Magazine 

 in 1898. It is regarded by Mr Baker as coming near to 

 the North American species /. tenax and /. Douglasiana, 

 but from both of these it is distinguished by its con- 

 colorous yellow flowers. The rhizome is very short ; 

 the base of stem is swollen and is surrounded by a dark 

 brown scariose sheath which is remarkably truncated, 

 or suddenly cut off sharp all round. The leaves 

 are narrow, firm and erect, but falling over at the 



