Plants Growing in Moist Soil: Low 

 Meadows and by Running Streams. 



** Now when it flowerethy 



And when the banks and fields 



Are greener every day^ 

 And sweet is each bird's breath 



In the tree where he builds 



Singing after his way^ 

 Spring comes to ns with hasty steps and briefs 



Everywhere is leafy 

 And everywhere snakes people laugh and play y 



Rinaldo U Aquino, 



LARGER BLUE FLAG. FLEUR-DE-LIS* (Plate XXXIV:) 

 Iris versicolor.' 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Iris. Royal ^urple^variegated with Scentless.- Southward to May ^ June, 

 white^ yellow and green. the Gulf. 



JF/owers : Izrge ; solitary; growing at the ends of the flower-stalks and 

 branches. jPermnl/t : of six divisions united below into a tube; the three 

 outer ones spreading, with abundance of yellow ; the three inner ones, erect 

 and smaller. Stamens: three ; hidden under the overarching style. Pistil: 

 one, with a three-cleft, petal-like style that arches over its own stigmas. 

 Leaves : equitant, or folded lengthwise ; sword-shaped ; mostly at the base of 

 the stem. Stem : stout ; leafy ; branched above ; glaucous. 



Juno, as we must all agree, was a goddess of rare taste. For 

 her favourite bird she chose the peacock, and her attendant, or 

 messenger, was Iris, the goddess of the rainbow. In this regal 



