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broad, densely bearded ; standards as long, oblong, an 

 inch broad ; style branches an inch long, crests deltoid. 

 Is native of the Maritime Alps, growing on rocks below 

 Eza. 



84. I. virescens, D. C. in Red. LiL, t. 925. Rhizome 

 stout, short creeping. Leaves ensiform, slightly glau- 

 cous, 8 to 9 in. long at flowering time, ^ to f in broad. 

 Stem one-headed, 9 to 12 in. long, bearing about two 

 reduced leaves ; spathes one to two flowered, 2 to 2 J in. 

 long ; valves oblong, ventricose, membranous, green, 

 with a scariose edge and tip at flowering time ; pedicel 

 very short. The perianth-tube is about an inch long ; 

 limb, 2 to 2 \ in. long ; falls obovate-cuneate, f to I in. 

 broad, greenish yellow, veined on the haft with dull 

 purple ; beard bright yellow ; standards as long and 

 broad, obovate, dull yellow ; style branches an inch 

 long ; crests lanceolate, deltoid, acute, serrulate. A 

 native of Valais, near Sion. The flowers are fugitive, 

 appearing at the end cf April. Ordinary cultivation is 

 all it requires. 



85. I. Reichenbachiana, HenfF. Oester. Bot. Zeit., 

 1858, 28. The rhizome is short and stout. The leaves 

 are ensiform, 6 to 8 in. long at flowering time, f in. 

 broad. The stem is slender, one-headed, nearly a foot 

 long, spathe very ventricose, 2 in. long, the valves 

 oblong, subscariose at flowering time. The flowers are 

 bright pale yellow ; the tube reaches to the top of 

 spathe ; the limb is 2 in. long ; the falls are obovate, 

 about an inch long, with bright yellow beard ; standards 

 as long and as broad as the falls ; the style arms an 

 inch long ; crests small. Is native of Servia, and flowers 

 in this country in May. An ally of lutescens. 



86. I. lutescens, Lam. Encyc., iii. 297 ; Bot. Mag., t. 

 2861 ; Reich. Ic. Germ., t. 329, fig. 756. This is a 

 handsome, easily grown Iris, and in the variety Statellae 

 is exceedingly pretty and charming. The rhizome is 



