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ing the stamina at their base. Style short ; 

 stigmata 3, petaloid, oblong, large, usually 

 arched. Stamina incumbent, covered bj 

 the stigmata. Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved, 

 many-seeded. Seeds flat, triangular ; (in 

 some species nearly round or spherical.) 

 Xutt. 



1. I. flowers beardless; stem two-edged, many Virginia, 

 flowered, longer than the leaves ; leaves sword- 

 shaped, interior segments of the stigma shorter, 

 capsule oblong : with angular furrows. Pursh. 



I. hexagona, Walt. fl. car. 66. 



Icon. bot. mag. 703. Jacquin ic. rar. 2. t. 223. 



(Pursh.) 



Virginian Iris, Common blue-flag, or fleur- de-Iuce '. 



A common and elegant plant, two feet high, well known 

 to every person. Flowers purple, bottom of the outside petals 

 yellow. Every where abundant on our river and creek-shores, 

 in meadows, wet grounds, and the neighbourhood of water. 

 Perennial. June. 



2* I- flowers beardless, stem round, flexuose, of the mwliahi. 

 length of the leaves ; leaves sword-shaped, interi- 

 or sements of the stigma equal, capsule ovate ; an- 

 gles obtuse. Willd. 

 Icon. bot. mag. 21. Dill. elth. t. 155. f. 187. 



(Pursh.) 



Resembling No. 1. at first sight. In similar situations, 



but rare. On the Delaware about four miles above the city. 



Perennial. June, July. 



3. I. flowers beardless, stem solid, round, as long as prUmatic*, 

 the leaves ; leaves very narrow and long ; cap- Pursh " 

 sules long, in the form of a prism, narrowed at 

 each end. Pursh. 

 Icon. bot. mag. 



A very beautiful species, from 2 to 3 feet high, with pale 

 purple flowers, first discovered and described by Pursh. Ea- 

 ailv recognised by its long and very narrow leaves ; and in fruit. 



