— precox flore variegato. 
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sECTION ee > 
“FLORA or 
the PLEasuReE- 
Ganven, 
CHAR ot 
1. The 
rT would not és eafy to find a Gardener who 
was unacquainted with this little Flower-de- 
luce; and impoffible to produce the moft in- 
curious. Obferver who ever pafied it by unno- 
ticed. 
It is vali’d according to its Merit, but the 
Culture commonly allow’d it will admit Improve- | 
ment; and, in Confequence, the Flower ney be 
render’d yet more beautiful. © 
The earlier Botanifts were as well acquainted 
with it as the prefent, and as much admir’d it. 
Ferraris calls it Iris Perfica variegata precox, 
Early variegated Perfian Iris: our Parxktnson, 
Tris bulbofa Perfica ,; and from him the Gardeners 
(for, till the fucceeding Mitye R, he was their 
Oracle) call it Perfian Iris. - 
TouRNEFORT and eit. admitting the Form 
of Roots in certain Kinds into ehtiien Charac- 
ters, feparate this and fome others from the Jris 
Kind: Ray under the Addition of the Term 
bulbofa to that Name; but TournerortT under 
a new one, A7phion: he calls. it Xipbion Perficum 
The Reader needs not, 
we fuppofe, be told that his ‘faithful Foilower, 
Mr. Mitrer, recites it under the fame Name, 
not as an Jyis. 
-Linnavs, much fuperior to thefe flight | 
Numb. XXXII. 
PERSIAN. 
Skins or Coats lie. 
from the common Jris’s, than in Figure. 
Flowers and curious Plants 1 now in ‘ther Perfettion, 
IRIS. 
Men, acknowledging none but the Patts of Fruc- April. 
tification, as diftinétive Charaéters for Genera, 
refers this where Nature plac’d it firft, and calls 
it Iris: he adds, as the Diftinétion of the Species, | 
corollis imberbibus, foliis Subulato canaliculatis, caule 
-longioribus : Beardlefs Iris, with furrow’d, flender, 
and fharp-pointed Leaves, longer than its Stalk. 
The Root is of the bulbous Kind, but oblong,. 
Pear-fathion’d, white, ‘infipid to the Tafte, and 
cover’d with many Films, under which its’ main 
This differs more in Tafte 
Their 
Juice is acrid and intolerable. From the 
Bafe of this Bulb run many chick: bob pt Fi- 
bres, tufted with numerous Hairs. 
The Stalk is very fhort, rarely more than three 
Inches in Height, and at the Bafe it is cover’d 
with feveral thick whitifh Membranes ; thefe are 
Continuations of the outer Coats of the Root, 
which Nature extends beyond their ufual Form, 
to defend a tender Stalk rifing in fevere Seafons : 
they envelope one another, and open at the 
Points, to let out the Stalk; and they are rib’d: 
the Ribs ‘faintly ftain’d redith. 
With the Stalk rife about fix Leaves from: 
within the Covering’ of the fame common Mem- 
brane: they are longer than the Stalk, but 
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