336 83. IRTDACE^. 



ments unequal. Style filiform. Stigmas S, widening up- 

 wards. Seeds more or less winged. 



4. Thichonema. Perianth regular, 6-oleft ; segments spread- 

 ing. Style filiform. Stigmas 3, bifid; lobes slender. 



5. Crocus. Periantb regular, funnelshaped with a long tube ; 

 limb beUshaped. Style filiform. Stigma3-fidor 3-parted ; 

 lobes widening upwards. 



1. Sistein'ohitjm Linn. 



|1, S. an'ceps (Lam.) ; scape 2-edged nearly simple nearly leaf- 

 less, spatb about 4-flowered "longer than the flowers," segments 

 of perianth emarginate mucronate. — Bedouie lAl. v. 282. — St. 

 about 1 foot high. L. grasslike. Spath with lanceolate valves, 

 falling short of the fi. in my Irish, specimens. Perianth blue; 

 segments nan'owed below. — ^Near Woodford, Galway. P. VU. I. 



2. I'bis Linn. Elag. 



1. /. Psetid-ad orus (L.) ; 1. swordshaped, st. roundish, perianth 

 beardless its inner segments narrower and falliiig short of the 

 stigmas.— J?. B. 578.— St. terete, 2—5 ft. high. Fl. yellow. 

 Caps, oblong, trigonous, apiculate. — Wet places. P. VI. VII. 

 Yellow Flag. E. S. I. 



2. J. /(KfeWs'sima (L.);; .1. swordshaped, St. compressed, peri- 

 anth beardless its inner segments about equalling the stigmas. 

 — E. B. 696. R. ix. 347. — Herb green, not glaucous, yielding an 

 impleasant smell when bruised. St. 1-angled, 2 ft. high. Fl. 

 lead-coloured or bluish, rarely yellow. — Woods and thickets. 

 P. v.— Vn. OlaMon. E. I. 



[*J. tuberdsa (L.) ; 1. tetragonal, segments of the perianth 

 acute, root tuberous. — Penzance. Cork. — U. B. S. 2818.] E. I. 



3. Gladi'oltts Linn. 



1. O.ilh/r'icus (Koch) ; cormclothed with nearly parallel fibres 

 netted above with long narrow openings, fl. secund, filaments 

 longer than the anthers, cor.-tube nearly thrice as long as gei-men, 

 caps, oval emarginate with 3 rounded angles. — Scorn. J.ofB.i. t. 

 4. St. 83. 3. — Height about 20 in. Corms ovate-acuminate. L. 

 slender, swordshaped. Sheaths 2-edged. Fl. reddish changing 

 to bluish; basal pet. rather acute, exceeding the blunt lower 

 lateral pet. ; " edges of upper pet. not covered by the 2 adjoin- 

 ing ones " when the fl. are in their prime. Stig. narrow below, 

 widening from the middle upwards and therei fringed. — Amongst 

 Pteris in the New Forest. fMe of Wight. Mr. A. G. More 

 P. VII. E. 



