NOTIJS ON OUR LOCAL PLANTS US 



and KafJdin. I have found it in all the counties. Nos. 9348, 1059, 

 U. N. I). Her!;., Notre Dame, Ind. 



I'amily t,0. IRIDEAE Ventenat, Tab. Reg. Veg. p. 188. 

 Irvlmcai' Lindley, Nat. Syst., ed. 2, p. 382, (1836). 



IRIS 'llieophrastus, 97, Dioscorides, i : 1,4:32, Pliny and nearly 

 all pre-Linnaean writers'*. 



Iris Tour, liot., p. 291, (i0<j4); I. R. H. p. 3.58, also including 

 Xiphion and Sisyrinchium of the same author. 



Iris versicolor Linn., Sp. PI. p. 38, (17.53). 



Iris virginica Linn.l. c. 



Lake Maxinkuckee (Clarkej. I^'ound throughout the region. 

 L'. N. IJ. Herb. No. 3228, Notre Dame, Ind., (Powers;; No. 2664, 

 Notre Dame; 544 Chain Lakes. No. 2681 a first thought to be 

 only an albino^ showed on more careful examination other more 

 notable differences, some of these, however, already referred to. The 

 llowering peduncle is scarcely half as thick as the ordinary plants. 

 The leaves much narrower, and very long, averaging nearly twice 

 those of other plants. The joint of the leaf on the flowering stalk 

 is not swollen. The involucral bracts become narrowed gradually 

 upwards instead of being broadest in the middle; they are long 

 attenuate. The flower beside being perfectly white, without the 

 characteristic puri>le or violet lines that albinoes of blue flowers 

 usually exhibit, is only a little more than one half as large. The 

 stigma about one half as large. The habit of the plant too is 

 strikingly different being as tall, but strict. The root leaves withered 

 are even correspondingly more narrow, and very short. Root- 

 stock thin. The plant seems a good variety which we may call 

 Iris versicolor var. blandescens Nwd. nov. var. 



BERMIJ DIANA Tour. Els. Bot. p. 306, (1694); J- I<- H. 

 p. 387, (1700); Dillenius. Hort. Eltham. p. 48, (1732J; also 

 Bermudiana Linn., Syst. (1735); Sisyrinchium Linn., Gen. P. 

 p. 273, (1737;; P- 43^^ (1742); p- 4^^9, (1754); ^P- -I'l-P- 954. 

 ( 1 7.53). "^^^ Sisryinchium Tour, and of the older authors = /ri.5; 

 Bermwliana Adans. Fam. II., p. 60, (1763). 



Bermudiana angustifolia (Mill.) 



* Name of some species also written Xyns, e. g. I^liny 21:22. 

 "* Am. Mid. Nat. Vol. II., p. 266. 



