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2. Lais. Perianth 6-oleft; alternate segments reflexed. 

 Stigmas 3, like petals, covering tlie stamens. 



3. Gladiolus. Perianth irregular, 6-eleft, 2-lipped; seg- 

 ments unequal. Style filiform. Stigmas 3, -widening up- 

 wards. Seeds njore or less 'vringed. 



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

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



5. Oeocus. Perianth regular, funnelshaped with a long tube ; 

 limb bellshaped. Style filiform. Stigma 3-fid or 3-parted; 

 lobes widening upwards. 



1. Sistetpt'chtum Linn. 



1. S. Bermudia'nwm (L.) ; scape 2-edged nearly simple nearly 

 leafless, spath 1 — 6-fiowered falling short of the fl., segments of 

 perianth emarginate mucronate. — Sy. E. B. 1491. JRedoute Lil. 

 v.282.-^St. about 1 foot high. L. grasslike. Spath with about 

 equal lanceolate valves, falling short of the fl. in my Irish speci- 

 mens. Perianth blue ; segments narrowed below. — ^Near Wood- 

 ford, Galway, abundant. P. VII. I. 



2. I'eis Linn. Flag. 



1. /. Pseud-ac'orus (L.); 1. swordshaped, st. roundish, perianth 

 beardless its inner segments narrower and falling short of the 

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

 or in /. Bastardi (Bor.) fl. pale lemon-coloured. Caps, oblong, 

 trigonous, apiculate. — a; outer perianth-segm. uniform clear 

 yellow with broadly obovate blade and rather short claw, 

 stigm. narrow and long. — /3. 1, acoriformis (Bor.) ; outer perianth- 

 segm. with deeper blotch at the base, the blade suborbicular and 

 claw long narrowish vellow with prominent purplish veins. 

 Yellow of fl. paler than in a.— Wet places. P. VI. VII. 

 Yellow Flag. E. S. I. 



2. L foetidis'sima (L.) ; 1. swordshaped, st. compressed, peri- 

 anth beardless its inner segments about equalling the stigmas. 

 — B. B. 596. R. ix, 347. — Herb green, not glaucous, yielding au 

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

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

 P. v.— VII. Gladdon. E. I. 



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

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



