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POPULAR FLORA. 



101. IBIS FAMILT. Order IRIPACE^. 

 Herbs with perennial roots, commonly with rootsloi ks, bulbs, or corms, and with equitant 

 leaves (151, Fig. 64) ; the flowers perfect, regular or irregular; tube of the corolla-like 



perianth below coherent 

 with the surface of the 

 ovary, and so appearing 

 to grow from its summit ; 

 stamens only 3, one before 

 each of the outer divis- 

 ions of the perianth ; their 

 anthers turned outwards, 

 i. e. looking towards the 

 perianth and opening on 

 that side. Ovary 3-celled, 

 making a many-seeded 

 pod : st}-le one : stigmas 

 3, often flat or petal-like. 

 Herbage, rootstocks, &c. 

 generally acrid or sharp- 

 tasted. Flowers generally 

 showy, and from a spathe 

 of one or more leaf-like 

 bracts, or from the axils of 

 the uppermost leaves, each 

 one generally opening but 

 once. 



515. Top of the Gtyle and llie S petal- like Gligm 

 lov 



also 



ided 



314. Plant of Cresled Dwa 

 3 of the Blamens. 516. MagniHed pietil and lower pari of llie lube of the perianth 

 leiigthwiae: the foliage cut away. 617. Lower part of a pod, divided croeBwise. 618. Seed 

 519. JMagnified section of the same, showing the embryo. r 



Filameats monadelphous in a tube which encloses the style as in a sheath: stigmas 

 thread-shaped ; perianth 6-parted nearly to the ovary, widely spread- 

 ing, opening in sunshine and for only one day. 



Flowers small, blue or purple, with 6 equal obovate divisions; stigmas simple: stems 

 or scapes flat or 2-winged, from fibrous roots; leaves narrow and 

 grass-like, (SisyrincMum) Blue-eyed-Grass. 



Flowers very large, orange and spotted with crimson and purple ; the 3 inner divisions 

 much smaller and narrowed in the middle: stigmas each 2-cleft: 

 scape terete, from a coated bulb ; leaves plaited, (Tigiidia) *Tiger-flowek. 



Filaments separate: stigmas flattened, or petal-like. 



Perianth 6-parted down to the ovary, regular and wheel-shaped, the divisions obovate- 

 oblong, all alike, yellow, with darker spots: seeds remaining after the 

 valves of the pod fall, berry-like and black, the whole looking like a 

 blackberry (whence the common name). Stems leafy below, frora a 

 rootstock : leaves sword-shaped, (Parddnlkus) *Blackberrt-Lili. 



