I04 Tall Bearded Iris 



a single word expressing some obvious character of 

 the species. In 1753 he pubhshed on this plan his 

 "Species Plantarum," which is the basis of the present 

 universally accepted binomial nomenclature. In this 

 great work, under the heading IRIS, as genus-name, 

 he described one form of Iris, adopting "germanica" 

 as the species-name, as follows: 



"germanica. 2. Iris corollis barbatis, caule foliis 

 longiore multifloro [Iris with the corollas bearded, 

 stem longer than the leaves, many flowered]. Hort. 

 cliff. 18. Hort. ups. 16. Mat. med. 24 [earlier pub- 

 lications by Linnaeus]. Roy. lugdb. 17 [Royen's Flora 

 Leydensis, published in 1740]. 



"Iris vulgaris germanica, s. sylvestris, Bauh. pin. 

 30 [the common german Iris, or the woods-inhabiting 

 Iris of Bauhin's Pinax, Pinax Theatre Botanic, pub- 

 lished in 1623]. 



"Iris hortensis latifolia. Bauh. pin. 31 [the broad- 

 leaved Iris of gardens, mentioned in Bauhin's Pinax]. 



"Habitat in Germanicse Editis [it is found in the 

 higher districts of Germany]." 



It appears from his description that Linnaeus thus 

 established the species, in the present accepted nomen- 

 clature, from earlier authors, principally from Caspar 

 Bauhin, and that he took from him the location also. 

 In subsequent publications he substituted "altiore", 

 taller, for "longiore", longer, and he added to the 

 above definition: 



"floribus inferioribus pedunculatis. Petala inferiora 

 plana; interiora integerrima, nee emarginata [with the 

 lower flowers stalked. Lower petals flat; inner ones 

 entire, not notched at apex]." 



