By Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. 307 



brother gardeners will, I trust, excuse a repetition of such 

 injunctions respecting valuable plants, and this especially 

 requires to have a long sound sleep, which can only be pro- 

 cured by contiued drought : an unseasonable shower has 

 just the effect upon it, which a bucket of cold water, thrown 

 over us when warm in bed at midnight, would have. 



Dietes Iridifolia. MSS. Iris moraeoides. Ker in Bot. 

 Mag. n. 1407. ad calcem descriptionis Morace Sisyrinchii. 

 Moraea Iridioides. Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 693. cum Ic.—Linn. 

 Mant.p. 28. Iris compressa. Thunb. Diss. n. 12. Moraea 

 spatha, &c. Ph. Mill. Ic. p. 159. t. 239. /. 1. 



For establishing this as a genus, I have the high authority 

 of the late Mr. Dryander, who observed that its radication 

 alone separated it from Moraea, as widely as its corolla does 

 from Iris : in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, indeed, 

 he has left it with Moraea, because he determined to follow 

 Wield enow whenever he could. It is one of the hardier 

 Cape plants, living through a mild winter here in the open 

 air ; and it is remarkable that the same peduncle continues 

 flowering two or even three years together, with fruit hanging 

 to it in different states of maturity. Whether this is the case 

 in its natural climate, which is so much hotter than ours in 

 summer, remains to be ascertained. 



Homeria Collin a. Vent. Dec. Gen. Nov. p. 5. Moraea 

 collina. Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 1033. cum Ic. - Jacq. 1c. rar. 



v. 2. t. 220. Thunb. Diss. n. 13. Sisyrinchium collinum. Cav. 



Diss.n 34fj. 



Monsieur Ventenat, in my opinion, has very judiciously 

 separated this genus from Mor^a, several species of which 

 flowered last summer in the collection of Messrs. Lee and 



