Plahits Growing oe Moist Soil: Low 
Meadows and by Running Streams. 
“ Now when it flowereth, 
And when the banks and fields 
Are greener every day, 
And sweet is each bird’s breath 
In the tree where he butlds 
Singing after his way, 
Spring comes to us with hasty steps and brief, 
Everywhere ts leaf, 
And everywhere makes people laugh and play.” 
Rinaldo D' Aquino. 
LARGER BLUE FLAG. FLEUR-DE-LIS. (Pate XXX/V,) 
Irzs versicolor. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Iris. Royal purple, variegated with Scentless. Southward to May, June. 
white, yellow and green. the Gulf. 
Flowers: large; solitary; growing at the ends of the flower-stalks and 
branches. Fertanth: of six divisions united below into a tube; the three 
outer ones spreading, with abundance of yellow; the three inner ones, erect 
and smaller. Strmens: three; inserted. vsti: one, with a three-cleft, petal- 
like style that arches over itsown stigmas. Leaves: equitant, or folded length- 
wise ; sword-shaped ; mostly at the base of the stem. Stem: stout; leafy; 
branched above ; glaucous. 
Juno, as we must all agree, was a goddess of rare taste. For 
her favourite bird she chose the peacock, and her attendant, or 
messenger, was Iris, the goddess of the rainbow. In this regal 

