440 74. IRIDACE.E. 



Native. Paludal. This species is far too familiar and 

 frequent to have had its special localities placed on record; 

 and it is so conspicuous as scarcely to admit of being over- 

 looked by the makers of local lists and floras. On adding 

 to my own private notes of places in which it has been 

 seen, all the data afforded by the lists and floras, I find 

 that there still remain fifteen counties in which it has not 

 been ascertained to grow ; although I cannot doubt that it 

 would be found in all of those counties if it were looked 

 for ; and doubtless it is known to resident botanists in se- 

 veral of them. Ten of the counties in question are situate 

 in Wales and the Lowlands. 



Iris tuberosa, Linn. 



Area (1). 



Alien. Established through cultivation in several spots 

 about Penzance, in Cornwall ; chiefly or solely in and 

 about old gardens and orchards. See Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 

 205. Phytologist, ii. 679, 680 ; and also iii. 104. Eng. 

 Bot. Supp. 2818. The same species is likewise said to 

 occur near Cork. 



Iris Xiphigides, Ehrh. 



Area (6 and 15). 



Alien. In Dillwyn's Materials for a Fauna and Flora of 

 Swansea, this species is stated to have grown in Glamor- 

 ganshire, " at Gelly Evan, near Penllergare, along with Iris 

 fcetidissima, for upwards of forty years." And G. Don 

 said that he discovered it in the year 1810, in a marsh near 

 Colonel Kinloch's of Logic, growing among carices and 

 junci, in a situation where it had never been cultivated. 



