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Tall Bearded Iris 



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/Obovotel / \ /Pointed] 



Ovate 1 I I 



FIG. XXI. SHAPES OF SEGMENTS 



FIG. XXII. FAIRY 



"haft". The base of the 

 lower segments is so much 

 more frequently referred 

 to than the base of the 

 others that, to abbreviate 

 description, "haft" is 

 coming to be used to 

 designate the former (Fig. 

 XX, 15, page 130) and 

 "claw" the latter (Fig. 

 XX, 14, page 130). 



STANDARDS. - The 

 three inner segments or 

 divisions above the peri- 

 anth-tube, sometimes re- 

 ferred to as "petals", are 

 usually called "stand- 

 ards" (Fig. XX, n, page 

 130). Generally they are 

 nearly erect, but their 

 upper portions are so in- 

 curved that sometimes 

 as, Lohengrin, Fairy (Fig. 

 XXII) they overlap, 

 and sometimes as, Iris 

 King (Fig. XXIII, page 

 133), Edouard Michel 

 (Fig. I, title page), Mon- 

 signor (Fig. XXIV) the 



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