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flowers. The foliage is intermediate between that of 

 the parents. The flower is of fuller colour than in the 

 female parent, but is without the conspicuous colour 

 patch at the apex of the fall, which forms so conspicuous 

 a feature in /. persica, the male parent. It flowers about 

 the end of March. 



II. Dwarf Junes. 



Flowers, yellow; crests quadrate 



and large ,, .^ [>f^ T . 125. I. CAUCASICA 



Flowers, pale greenish yellow, 

 with prominent hairy ridge 

 on blade of falls; standards 

 cleft into three lobes at 

 the tip 'io i uf;j-,v Ki;U . 126. I. TUBERGENIANA 



Flowers, lavender,with blotches 

 of white and marks of 

 deeper lavender on falls ; 

 crests triangular and small 127. I. WILLMOTTIANA 



125. I. Caucasica, HofFm., Comm. Soc. Physic. Med. 

 Mosc., i. 40; Sweet, Brit. Ft. Gard., t. 255. This is 

 not so ornamental as to deserve general cultivation. It 

 has been confused with the much finer /. orchioides, but it 

 differs in being dwarf, in having inflated spathe-valves 

 and sessile flowers, and in possessing a leaf with dis- 

 tinctly horny margin. The bulb is ovoid with brown 

 membranous tunics and fleshy roots ; stem short, 3 to 6 

 headed; spathes \\ to 2 in. long; valves lanceolate. 

 The flowers are 2 to 3 m across ; tube rather longer 

 than the inflated spathe-valves ; falls with a small ovate 

 blade, the claw bearing toothed median ridge, which is 

 higher on the back of blade and having large transparent 

 auricles which embrace the style ; standards minute, 



