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Syn. I. imberbis (Poiret, Voyag. ii. p. 86). I. mauritanica of 

 Clusius, and also of Crawler (Ker), Bot. Mag. sub tab. 986. 



Fig. Bot. Mag. t. 5890 ; Desfontaines, as above ; Garden. 



Charact. Bulb globose, with thick, woody, rigid, reddish-brown, 

 ribbed outer coats, a number of which surround an old bulb and split 

 up into stiff fibres. Leaves very slender, rush-like ; they shoot in late 

 autumn. Stem bears one or, when in good condition, two flowers. 

 Spathe-valves long, lanceolate. Perianth tube one or two inches 

 long, slender. Blade of fall round, or nearly so, much broader than 

 the short, nearly triangular claw, which is curved sideway into a 



o,v 



FIG. 47. IKIS JUNCEA. 



canal. Standard oblanceolate, shorter than fall. Style triangular, 

 with large quadrate crests raised above the claw of the fall Colour 

 a rich yellow, a very low ridge on the blade of fall being of a deeper, 

 more orange yellow. Capsule very long, narrow, rounded, trigonal, 

 with deeply grooved sides. Seeds numerous, small, wedge-shaped or 

 cubical. 



Time. June or July, later than I. xiphium. 



Hah. Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, Sicily, Italy (Riviera). 



15.1. BOISSIERE. Henriquez, Bolet. da Soc. Brot. iii. p. 183, 

 with fig. (After Boissier, Swiss botanist.) 



Fig. Willkomm, HI. PL Hisp. t. 118; Bot. Mag. t. 7097 ; Hen- 

 riquez, as above. 



