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ON A NEW SPECIES OF IRIS. 229 
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is similar to that of the American plant. 1 cannot see its relationship to 
. salicifolius, although the figure in Eng. Bot. muc mbles 
: I e submersed leaves of the Irish spe- 
cimens are sessile, or often not quite stalkless, rather than * semi-amplexi- 
caul.” Asa Gray's description does not convey to me the idea of an am- 
plexicaul leaf, for he says that they are “ very long, lanceolate, and lance- 
linear.” At present I think that we must admit P. Lonchites as a British 
P. decipiens (Nolte). —This much resembles. P. lucens, but I cannot 
or “subserrate” structure near the tip 
of the leaves, described by Syme and Hooker. Certainly the leaves are 
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wavy near the tip, but not at all serrulate as are those of P. lucens 
P. longifolius (Gay).—1 think that my Irish specimen of this plant is 
ofthe same species a longifolius of Reichenbach (Fl. Germ. exsic. 
s the P. long 
2501. Hooker (p. 372) says that the P. longifolius of Gay is rightly 
Gay’s Herbarium is 
P. longifolius is the same as that 
confirmed in my belief of the identity of Gay's pla 
Syme agrees with Hooker in thinking that this plant is proba 
of P. lucens, notwithstanding the absolutely entire leaves of my pla 
may venture to add that I think Moore and More treat the plant with some- 
what unmerited contempt in the * Cybele Hibernica' (312). 
ON A NEW SPECIES OF IRIS. 
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fortiores 3 ina superiore 8 inferiore parum prominul 
alibus medio 12-16 lin. latis, scapis subcompressis 
subeequantibus, spathis herbaceis complanatis bifl 
exteriore lanceolato-lineari 5-pollicari florem prius 
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