TRIANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
ing the stamina at their base. Style short ; 
stigmata 3, petaloid, oblong, large, usually 
arched. Stamina incumbent, covered by 
the stigmata. Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved, 
many-seeded. Seeds flat^ triangular ; (in 
some species nearly round or spherical.) 
Nutt. 
1. I. flowers beardless ; stem two-edged, many virgimea* 
flowered, longer than the leaves ; leaves sword- 
shaped, interior segments of the stigma shorter, 
capsule oblong: with angular furrows. Pursh. 
I. hexagona, Walt. fl. car, 66. 
Icon. bot. mag. 703. Jacquin ic. rar. 2. t. 223. 
(Pursh.) 
Virginian Iris. Common blue-Jlag^ or Jleur-deduce* 
A common and elegant plant, two feet high, well known 
to every person. Flowers purple, bottom of the outside petals 
yellow. Every where abundant on our river and creek-shores, 
in meadows, wet grounds, and the neighbouriiood of water. 
Perennial. June. 
2* L flowers beardless, stem round, flexuose, of the versicolor, 
length of the leaves ; leaves sword-shaped, interi- 
or sements of the stigma equal, capsule ovate j an- 
gles obtuse. Willd. 
Icon. bot. mag. 21. Dill. elth. t. 155. f. 187. 
(Pursh.) 
Resembling No. 1. at first sight. In similar situations, 
but rare. On the Delaware about four miles above the city. 
Perennial. June, July. 
3. I. flowers beardless, stem solid, round, as long as pnimatica, 
the leaves ; leaves very narrow and long ; cap- 
sules long, in the form of a prism, narrowed at 
each end. Pursh. 
Icon. bot. mag. 
A very beautiful species, from 2 to 3 feet high, with pale 
purple flowers, first discovered and described by Pursh. Ea- 
sily recognised by its long and very narrow leaves ; and in fruit. 
