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tended to bring it within the description. Is native of 

 Austria, Turkey and South Russia, and flowers in June. 



The following is a selection of good garden forms. 

 All have yellow standards with the exception of Alba : 



Alba (Innocenza), standards and falls ivory white. 



Aurea, falls rich chrome yellow. 



Beaconsfield, falls crimson, edged primrose. 



Favourite, falls lilac, margined white. 



Gracchus, falls crimson, reticulated white. 



Hector, falls velvety crimson-black. 



John Fraser, falls purple, shaded yellow and reticulated 

 white. 



Maori King, falls rich velvety crimson, margined with 

 gold. 



Mrs A. F. Barren, falls rose-violet, margined yellow. 



Regina, falls white, conspicuously veined lilac, edged 

 primrose-yellow. 



Rigolette, falls bright madder-brown, reticulated 

 white. 



Sans Souci, falls yellow, reticulated crimson-brown, 



A number of garden forms are described in the Journal 

 of the Royal Hort. Society, vol. xxviii. p. 1 8 8. 



90. I. aphylla, Linn. ; /. nudicaulis, Lam. ; /. hungarica, 

 Waldst and Kit., PL Rar. Hung., t. 226; Lbifora, Reich. 

 Ic. FL Germ., t. 332, fig. 759, non-Linn. ; /. bohemica, 

 Schmidt ; /. furcata, M. B. FL Taur., iii. 42 ; /. furcata, 

 Bot. Mag., t. 2361, Bat. Reg., t. 80 1 ; /. subbiflora, Fieber ; 

 /. Fieberi, Siede. This is an Iris of many names, and the 

 above are a selection of those most likely to be met with. 

 The rhizome is stout and short creeping. The leaves 

 are ensiform, glaucescent, \ to I ft. long at flowering 

 time, under an inch broad. The stems are J to I ft. 

 long, usually more than one-headed, often forked low 

 down ; spathes one to two flowered, l| to 2 in. long ; 

 valves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, greenish at flowering 

 time ; pedicels very short. The perianth-tube is cylindri- 



