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83. IBLDACE^. 
ments unequal. Style filiform. Stigmas 3, widening up- 
wards. Seeds more or less winged. 
4. Trichont)Ma. Perianth regular, 6-cleft ; segments spread- 
ing. Style filiform. Stigmas 3, bifid ; lobes slender. 
5. Crocus. Perianth regular, fimnelshaped witli along tube ; 
limb bellsbaped. Style filiform. Stigma 3-fid or 3-parted ; 
lobes widening upwards. 
1. SiSTRIN'cHIUM i^'ttM. 
11. S.an 'ceps (Lam.) ; scape 2-edged nearly simple nearly leaf- 
less, spath about 4-flowered " longer than the flowers," segments 
of perianth emarginate mueronate. — Redoute Lil. v. 282. — St. 
about 1 foot high. L. grasslike. Spath -w-ith lanceolate valves, 
falling short of the fl. in my Wsh specimens. Perianth blue ; 
segments narrowed below. — Woods near Woodford, Galway. 
Mr. Jos. Lijnam. P. I. 
2. I'eis Linn. Flag. 
1. I. Pseud-ac'orus (L.) ; 1. swordshaped, st roundish, perianth 
beardless its inner segments naiTower and falling short of the 
stigmas. — E. B. o7S. — St. terete, 2 — 5 ft. high. Fl. yellow. 
Caps, oblong, trigonous, apiculate. — Wet places. P. VI. VII. 
Ydlow Fkiff. E. S. I. 
2. I. fatidis'sima (L.) ; 1. swordshaped, st. compressed, peri- 
anth beardless its inner segments about equalling the stigmas. 
— E. B. 596. R. be. 347.— Herb green, not glaucous, yielding an 
unpleasant smell when bruised. St. 1-angled, 2 ft. high. Fl. 
lead-coloured or bluish, rarely yellow. — Woods and thickets. 
P. v.— VII. Gladdm. E. I. 
[*/. tvherdsa (L.) ; 1. tetragonal, segments of the perianth 
acute, root tuberous. — Penzance. Cork. — E.B.S.2&1Q.'] E.I. 
3, Gladi'oltjs Linn. 
1. G.tlli/r'teus (Koch); corm clothed with nearly parallel fibres 
netted above -with long nan-ow openings, fl. eecuud, filaments 
longer than the anthers, cor. -tube nearly thrice as long as genneu, 
caps, oval emarginate with 3 roimded angles. — St. 83. 3. — Height 
about 20 in. 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." Stig. narrow below, widening fi-om 
the middle upwards and there fringed. — Amongst Ptens in the 
New Forest, tisle of Wight. Mr. A. G. More. P. VH. E. 
