788 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
(June 4, 1887, 
Mr. Daniel Dewar, of the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
was not disposed to accept Mr. Hibberd’s doctrine in 
the form stated, for he had, as a cultivator of alpine 
Primulas, observed their great range of variation, and 
e with Professor Kerner in 
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P a possible cine ха 
the четен ба he might yet want it to ac 
for the persistency of the bract. m pedem ot 
: Pes ыйы 
ula Auric eula, wh 
im 
had gone out off cultivation, priam cae: 
ing, ere the cultivation of the flower became general] ; 
. pubescens had taken its place, and was at 
least a possible progenitor of the show flowers. And 
it was worthy of especial remark that P. pubescens 
had immense vitality, for it would live and thriv 
under the most varied and even adverse circum- 
tances. That it had given birth to flowers of very - 
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distinct character was well known, and it would do 
n and again, reproducing in every possible 
vetica (Don), hirsuta (Vill,), m 
rhaetica (Gaud.), and villosa А» ), were but forms 
of pubescens. 
hairman briefly summed up the main points 
in the ote remarking that such a meeting as 
the present was the best justification the Club could 
desire, ux erm Ке cene for more of en meetings 
as the ing their numbers. They 
were me зана. tö re Shirley Hibberd for the 
paper he had placed before them, and эт 
and Mr. Dewar for their practical and v 
ments upon it. He moved that their ina thanks be 
given to those gentlemen for the intellectual enter- 
sep they had afforded. 
r. Hibberd acknowledged the compliment, re- 
florists Auricula had the question, 
which was one eni apart from the reintr 
duction of the d Auri to garde If he 
appeared to damn the sixteenth century ists, it 
but because they had been absurdly cited for evidence 
of things they had not seen, and that were actually 
non-existent when their в were printed. He 
concluded by moving a vote of thanks the 
. Chairman, and this being carried by acclamation the 
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Tee Mav-Bua IN DENMARK.— The ravages of 
that 
SOME NEW IRISES. 
(Concluded from р. 614.) 
l LUPINA, 8р. n. 
Rhizome fleshy, creeping, 9 young buds, as іп I. 
в group), soon rolling 
separated fro: 
other rhiz ricted Laien 
Leaves about six to a tuft, rather narrow, 9 inch 
more by # i e or very slightly falcate, 
ually narrowed to a point, d icd pm faintly 
veined, not purple at base at a 
Stem single flowered, about % inc мга m- 
mencement of spathe eii hidden nd pn 
last inch by Dan ms 
Spathe valves two, long, n або т more inches b 
3 inch, r caching beyond ti us top of the tube, pale 
green, with parallel veins, eee scarious at 
the y tip only and that sli “he “м 
riant tube about 2 inches, ovary trigonal, about 
М ет іп eiie both verdi hidden by spathe- 
"d 
Perianth segment, outer (fall), about 3 ns by 1j 
at broadest, broadly lanceolate, the broadly cani- 
culate claw T expanding to "the lamina 
which n unded but pointed and 
"ami ай reflexed on the ved 
at about right angles, with a gentle curve, and r 
flexed laterally on itselfin чы middle portion. The 
edge of the claw and the first part of the lamina 
is e only, bu rr t of nes rest of the lamina 
e, becoming at the apex coarsely serrate. 
The Boy c colour oft the segment is in some cases 
a greenish-yellow, in others a pu yellow, 
SOL th id f third inwards 
with conspicuous thick irregular blotched and 
broken brownish-red veins jan portion 
of the claw, and the median portion of the first 
third of the lamina is covere h s TO 
of hairs which in the middle are bright yellow 
but towards the outside yellow tipped with brown ; 
in the the Mess is o ed and hidden 
by the hairs. "The median portion of the middle 
third is occupied by ^ conspicuous patch of rich 
dark red-purple, almost black colour, the jagged 
edges of which are continued into the veins. In 
an 
front of this, reaching to o the apex, is a b of 
yellow or greenish-yellow, with very faint veins 
Inner peri ж терт (5% ), 34 by 2} inches, 
ort c above 
omp etely to cover the e styles; the edge crenate, 
м die upper half bent inwardly especially towards 
apex, which i is ves folded so as to resemble 
s point of a dog's Body colour ur greenish- 
29 ow or purer Slov, marked by, and in the 
r part almost hidden b ee blotched 
veli of brownish-red On the an line of 
inside of claw a few reddish-brown hairs. 
eel 1} by ё ас, very аг rvin 
n the claw of the fall an o 
wp to side, the pie under surface be 
concave, yellow, 
brownish-red in pw median portions of both 
nder on u 
margin. 
hers nspicuous, with large-grained 
pale yellow Polit 
— trigonal, dehiscing at the sides pe а 
hiefly m пе upper half; seed 
Drowa wrinkled coats and a сенс 
cream- A strophiole. 
This strikingly handsome tawny Iris grows on the 
w miles south of Kharput. I a 
indebted for living roots of it to the kind zeal of 
Mrs. Barnum, of the American Mission, Kharput, 
who has been indefatigable in assisting me to a 
knowledge of the Irises of Asia Minor, and who 
has sent me not only this and the little I. reticulata 
— but also several other Irises, some of 
romise to be new. It is called by the country 
people the Wolfs Ear; and, indeed, the tawny tips 
the standards as they burst. out of the opening 
"ie fairly suggest the name; hence ventured 
sal a lupin, the Wolf Iris. It flowered with 
me in M | 
‚ and comes 
meer inier say nothing of the form 
texture of the leaf and the colour of the flower (I o 
not lay stress on exact of the segm nts, 
since these vary much within the true limits of the 
species I. germanica), seem to me fully to j my 
giving it specific rank А 
nearest to I. Heylandiana (Boissier), from which, 
however, it is distinguished by the form of the seg- 
treatment as other 
members of the Oncocyclus group. 
i BILIOTTI, Ф. n. 
ттар ae that « of I. german 
Leay darker en, and mor re distinctly ae 
оаа e rigid t n those of I. germanica, but 
like cd MA al av through the winter, 
kac gh айн somewhat suddenly to a poi 
a 
art ppm f: e lamina 
he part representing the pet 
Indorcscence that of I. germanica. "eue about 2 
3 fee de ps the 1 le та 
Beds valves 3i by $ inch, narrow, acumi- 
nate, We. persistent, Scion, when the 
flow iru nde ч арех о Bw 
sometimes hardly а widely divergent, so as 
E the whole of the tube and much of the 
Fall 3 inches by 14 inch at ker ig spathulate- 
сй 
е; пррег ӨТСӨ; claw w und, with 
thick, bold, very dark pu volé art veins ; 
mina fine reddi و‎ А Mee о us da 
rk, 
‘in ost bla ne veins, so thin e hardly visible 
gean marked with brown d 
nish, opaque-white on the. rath See ‘the yb 
Celo our of which shines through. 
by 2 i nches s, erect, ать E 
expandi 
with v 
orent of both standar 
ci E bear conspicuous vum зеныя 
expan 
Piri obovate, 2i inch by ё t exclusive of pipe 
earl a purplish flus 
reddish- le, with е veins; stigma 
luna чё ‘The style is raised high above the мег 
of t 
Anthers rather longer Оше, filaments; pollen white, 
e-grained, abundan 
abu 
"i inch long, } el еа with purple stripes 
ms endin of standards, hollow for 
more A: half i gt 
Ovary 1 inch by E inch, support rted by a short (3 ied 
pedicel, bright rounded, triangular in 
tion, but bearin = sie grooves, the three teral 
being deepest. 
Шиш re үрү inches by 1} inch) снети, н 
een dehiscing at su see 
aon oval, having a light brown 14 лав 
when first shed. 
I owe this new handsome and delightfully fragrant 
Iris to the great kindness of Alfred Biliotti, Esq., 
formerly Consul at Trebizond, now P. Crete, and . 
venture to give myself the pleasure of naming i 
e roots were “уар south of 
Trebizond, near Kalahissar, in the province of 
to I. germanica, and ari ed specimen 
have passed as examples of that species. 
large conspicuous, persistent, green, widely divergent 
h i rmanica ely 
It flowers rather later than I. бейш iist LE 
