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narrow and long. — ti. I. acoi-iformis (Bor.) ; outer perianth- 
segm. with deeper blotch at the base, the blade suborbicular 
and claw long narrowish yellow with prominent purplish veins. 
Yellow of fl. paler than in a.— Wet places. P. VI. VII. 
Yellow Flag. E. S. I. 
2. J./ceti(/is'sima (L.) : 1. swordshaped, st. compressed, peri- 
anth beardless iis inner segments about equalling the stigmas. 
—E. B. 596. R. ix. 347.— Herb green, not glaucous, yielding an 
unpleasant smeU when bruised. St. 1-angled, 2 ft. high. Fl. 
lead-coloured or bluish, rarely [var. citrina Bromf.] yellow, 
seeds red. — Woods and thickets. P. V. — VII. (Uaddon. E.I. 
[*7. tuherosa (L.) ; 1. tetragonal, segments of the perianth 
acute, root tuberous. — Penzance. Cork. — E. B. S. 2818.] E. I. 
[/. spuria (L.); with linear 1., limb of outer per.-segm. roundiah, inner segin. 
and stig. violet, and conspicuously apiculate oari;., is apparently established m 
maislies at Huttoft, Line] 
3. Gla diolus Liion. 
1. (/. iUyr'k-us (Koch) : corm clothed with nearly parallel 
fibres netted above with long narrow openings, fl. secund, fila- 
ments longer than the anthers, cor.-tube nearly thrice as long- 
as germen, caps, oval emarginate with 3 rounded angles. — Sy. 
E. B. 1493. J. of B. i. t. 4. St. S3. 3.— Height about 20 in. 
Corms ovate-acuminate. L. slender, swordshaped. Sheaths 
2-edged. Fl. reddish changing to bluish ; basal pet. rather 
acute, exceeding the blunt lower lateral pet. : " edges of upper 
pet. not covered by the 2 adjoining ones " when the fl. are in 
their prime. Stigm. narrow below widening from the middle 
upwards and there fringed. — Amongst I'teris in the New Forest. 
I«le of Wight, ^^r A. G. Mare. P. VII. E. 
4. Hoil'VLEX Seb. it J/aui: 
]. a. parnftdra (Britten) : scape 1 -flowered usually solitary 
slightly nodding, 1. filiform compressed furrowed recurved, 
spath exceeding the tube of the cor., style falling short of the 
stam., stigmas bifid. — 11. Coltrn'iup (Seb. Maur.). E. B. 
2.";49. R. ix. 3.54. — A small plant not more than 4 in. high, 
with a corm. Fl. greenish without, pale with purple stripes 
and yellow at the base within. — Sandy places. Dawlisli 
Warren, Devon. Jersey and Guernsey. P. III. IV. E. 
