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84. lEIDACE.K. 
Anth. bursting outwards. Ovary inferior, 3-celled. Style 
1. Stigmas 3, dilated, often like petals. Caps. 3-celled, 3- 
valved : valves bearing the dissepiments in the middle. 
Seeds many. Embryo cylindrical, enclosed in horny or fleshy 
albumen. Radicle pointing towards the bile. 
1. SiSYiiiNCHiUM. Perianth G-cleft ; segments neilrly equal, 
patent. Style short. Stigraas 3, rolled inwards, filiform. 
Filaments connate below. 
■2. Iris. Perianth 6-cleft : alternate segments reflexed. 
Stigmas 3, like petals, covering the stamens. 
3. Gladiolus. Perianth irregular, 6-cleft, 2-lipped ; seg- 
ments unequal. Style filiform. Stigmas 3, widening up- 
wards. Seeds more or less winged. 
4. RoMULEA. Perianth regular, (j-cleft; segments spreading. 
Style filiform. Stigmas 3, bifid ; lobes slender. 
Crocus. Perianth regular, f unnelshaped wi th a long tube ; 
limb bellsliaped. Style filiform. Stigma 3-fid or 3-parted : 
lobes widening upwards. 
1. Sisyrin'chium Liwn. 
1. .S'. awj asti folium (Mill.) ; scape 2-edged nearly simple 
nearly leafless, spath 1 — (i-flowered falling short of the fl., seg- 
ments of perianth emarginate mucronate [caps, globular -trigonous] 
— Si/. E. B. 1491. .V. Bermudianum (L. excl. var. Redouts 
TJJ. V. 282. St. about 1 foot high. L. grasslike. Spath with 
about equal lanceolate valves, falling short of the ti. in my Irish 
specimens. Perianth blue ; segments narrowed below. Kerrv, 
Cork, Clare, and Calway. P. VII. I. 
i2. S. caH/or>t'<cit?)s (Aiton); scape simple compressed broadly ivinged lealh'Ss, 
.spath erect outer valve about equalling the M. sheathing connate at the base 
3 — 5-flowered, pcr.-segm. oval narrowing below, cops. eUipsoidal-trigonous. J. oj 
B. xxxiv. (180B) p. 494, c. 364.— Scapes usually 2. I'er. yellow (becoming orange) 
with dark veins.— Marsh, Ro.sslare, Wexford. Rev. E. .S. Marshidl. Status 
uncertain. V. VI. 1. 
2. I'bis Linn. Flag. 
1. I.Bseud-ac'o) vs(h.) ; 1. swordshaped,st. roundish, perianth 
beardless its inner segments narrower and falling short of the 
stigmas.— A'. B. 57s. -St. terete, 2—5 feet high. Fl. yellow, 
or in /. Bastiirdi (Bor.) fl. pale lemon-coloured. ( 'aps. oblong, 
trigonou.s, apiculate. — a ; outer perianth-segm. uniform clear 
yellow with broadly obovate blade and rather short claw, stigm. 
