IRIS 



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IRIS 



with purple ; Canary Bird, yellow ; 

 Laura, pale yellow and deep purple ; 

 Lmretia, porcelain, striped purple ; 

 Othello, yellow and violet ; Sappho, 

 golden-yellow and bright blue ; etc. 



by its bluish glaucous green leaves 

 and sulphur-yellow flowers veined 

 with lilac. 



FIG. 200. Iris germanica. Q.) 



I. gracilipes. A somewhat tender 

 Japanese species 6 to 12 ins. high, 

 with a slender branching root-stock, 

 narrow pointed leaves 6 to 12 ins. 

 long, and with purple or lilac flowers 

 about 2 ins. across, with yellow crests 

 (Bot. Mag. t. 7926). 



I. graminea. A pretty beardless 

 Iris from Central and Southern 

 Europe, with tufts of linear grassy 

 leaves 12 to 18 ins. long. Flowers 

 slightly fragrant, produced in May 

 and June, bright lilac -purple in 

 colour, 1 J to 2 ins. deep, the roundish 

 falls being veined with bluish-purple 

 on a white ground. (Bot. Mag. t. 

 681.) 



I. Grant Duffi. A pretty species, 

 native of the Holy Land, recognised 



I. Guldenstoedtiana (/. halophila ; 

 I. stenogyne). A beardless Siberian 

 Iris with stout flower-stems about 

 2 ft. high, and firm, sharp-pointed, 

 sword-like leaves. Flowers in June, 

 2 ins. deep ; falls white with an 

 orange base; standards pure white 

 with a yellow keel and margin. 

 There is an almost pure white variety, 

 alba, and a blue one called coerulea. 



I. Haynei. A native of Palestine, 

 closely related to /. Sari. It has 

 weak linear leaves 6 to 9 ins. long 

 and about i in. broad. The huge 

 flowers are soft lavender-purple 

 beautifully veined and dotted with 

 deep purple. The falls are deeper 

 in colour than the standards, having 

 a blackish blotch and numerous 

 blackish-purple hairs on the basal 



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