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cultivated for so many years that it is impossible to decide with 

 certainty which of its near allies are true species and which are 

 mere garden forms. Amongst the allies of Gesneriana I may 

 enumerate macrospila, platystigma, Ostrowskiana (B. M. t. 6865), 

 Maximowiczii, Batalini, Korolkoioi, Schrenkii, Boissieri, and 

 tetraphylla. 



IV. — The Scabriscapce differ from the Gesnerianaa by their 

 pubescent leaves and peduncles. The best known garden species 

 of this group is suaveolens, to which belong many of our dwarf 

 early-flowering forms with glaucous hairy leaves. T. pubescens 

 comes midway in character between pubescens and Gesneriana, 

 and is probably a garden hybrid. Many garden forms fall under 

 pubescens, such as the Brides of Haarlem and the Duke of York, 

 of taller habit and less acute segments than suaveolens. Other 

 species of this group are strangulata, bcetica, Kolpakoivskiana 

 (B. M. t. 6887), altaica, maculata, Eichleri, Alberti, and Greigi 

 (B. M. t. 6177). The last named of these has bright, orange- 

 scarlet flowers and distinctly spotted leaves, and is the finest of 

 the new Kussian discoveries. 



Of the true Tulips with hairy stamens there are two groups, 

 one with red or lilac and the other with yellow flowers. 



To the first group belong Haageri, Sprengeri, saxatilis, 

 bithynica, pulchella, polychroma, violacea, and Aucheri, and to 

 the latter sylvestris and its very numerous allies, some of which 

 have the flowers tinged with green and the others with red on 

 the back. I have not mentioned all the published species. My 

 main object has been to indicate what are the principal characters 

 of the seven groups under which they may be arranged. 



A SHORT PAPER ON IRIS. 



In Connection with the Exhibition op a large number 

 of Paintings of the Genus. May 5, 1896. 

 [By W. J. CArAiiN.] 



We all know the Iris as an historical flower under its name of 

 Fleur de Lis, Flour de Luce, perhaps flower of Louis. Louis VII. 

 of France adopted it as the emblem of his shield during tho 



