IRIS FAMILY, lrldaceae. 



A slender-stemmed species with very 

 Blue Flag narrow grasslike leaves, and a smaller 



Iris flower with generally narrower propor- 



prismatica tions, and an extremely short tube, but a 

 Violet-blue long slender stem proceeding from smaller 

 bracts or leaflets. The fruit capsule nar- 

 rowly three-lobed and angular. This species is mainly 

 found near the coast in brackish swamps, or wet grounds. 

 1-3 feet high. Me. to Penn. and N. Car. 



A usually one-flowered, small, slender- 

 Irisvema stemmed species with grasslike leaves 



Violet-blue scarcely over seven inches long, the flower 

 and yellow with the three principal divisions nar- 

 April-May rowed toward the base, slightly woolly, 

 and deep gold yellow at the narrowing part. Some- 

 times the flowers are white. The fruit capsule is ob- 

 tusely triangular and short. 4-8 inches high. On 

 wooded hillsides, from south Penn. to Ga. and Ky. 



A lance-shaped leaf tapering at both 

 Dwarf Iris ends distinguishes this species from all 

 hi* crUtata others ; the leaf is bright green, 4-9 inches 

 Light Violet long> and a bout } inch wide. The flowers 

 pn " ay are very light violet with the broad outer 

 divisions crested; i. e., they are marked with three 

 raised parallel flutings along the centre, the middle one 

 of which is orange yellow. The flower is exceedingly 

 delicate in color and dainty in form. The fruit capsule 

 is sharply triangular and ovate in outline, hardly twice 

 as long as it is wide. 3-6 inches high. It is a very- 

 dwarf plant common on the hillside and along streams, 

 from Md*. south to Ga., and west to southern Ind. and 

 Mo. 



_« ' . A Chinese plant escaped from cultiva- 



Blackberry * . . * 



Li , y tion, similar to the iris, but much more 



Belamcanda branched. The leaves flat and light green, 



Chinensis like those of the iris, the perfeQt flowers 



magenta™" 26 ' with SiX eVGn divisions of a U S ht g° lden 

 spotted orange color mottled with dull magenta 



August- spots. Three prominent stamens. Sev- 



Septetnber e ral flowers in bloom at once. The fruit 

 capsule is fig-shaped, 1 inch long, and when the scales or 

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