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l. Iris anguttifelix msior car idea. 
The greater blew Flowerdeluce with narrow Ieaues. 
This kinde of Flowerdeluce hath his Ieaues very long and narrow , of a whitifh 
greene colour, but neither fo long or broad as the laft, yet broader,thicker and ftiffer 
then any of the reft with narrow Ieaues that follow : the ftalke rifeth fometimes no 
higher then the Ieaues, and fometimes a little higher, bearing diuers flowers at the top, 
fuccefliuely flowring one after another, and are like vnto the flowers of the bulbous 
Flowerdeluces, but of a light blew colour, and fometimes deeper : after the flowers 
are paft, rife vp fix cornered heads, which open into three parts, wherein is contained 
brownefeede,almoft round: therooteis fmall, blackilh and hard, fpreading into 
many long heads, and more clofely growing or matting together. 
3. Iris anguflifolia purpurea marina. The purple narrow leafed Sea Flowerdeluce. 
This Sea Flowerdeluce hath many narrow hard Ieaues as long as the former, and 
ofadarkegreene colour, which doe fmellalittle ftrong : the ftalke beareth twoor 
threeflowersliketheformer,but fomcwhatlelTe,andof a darke purple or Violet co- 
lour : in feede and rootc it is like the former. 
4. Iris angtsflifolia purpureaverficolor. 
The variable purple narrow leafed Flowerdeluce. 
The Ieaues of this Flowerdeluce are very like the former Sea Flowerdeluce, and do 
a little ftinke like them ; the flowers are differing , in that the vpper Ieaues are wholly 
purple or violet, and the lower Ieaues haue white veines, and purple running one a- 
mong another : the feede and rootes differ not from the former purple Sea kinde. 
5 . Iris anguflifolia minor Pannonica fine ver pooler Cluftj. 
The fmall variable Hungarian Flowerdeluce of Clufius . 
This Hungarian Flowerdeluce(firft found out by Clufius , by him deferibed , and 
of him tooke the name) rifeth vp with diuers fmall tufts of Ieaues, very long, narrow, 
and greenc,growing thicke together, efpecially if it abideany time in a pIace ; among 
which rifeth vp many long round ftalkes, higher then the Ieaues, bearing two orthree, 
or foure fmall fl owers, one aboue another, like the former, but fmaller and of greater 
beauty : for the lower Ieaues are variably ftriped with white and purple, without any 
thrume or fringe at aifthe vpper Ieaues are of a blewilh fine purple or Violet colour, & 
fo are the arched Ieaues, yet hauing the edges a little paler : the heads for feede arc 
fmaller, and not fo cornered as the other, containing feedes much like the former, but 
fmaller : therooteis blacke and fmall, growing thicker and clofer together then any 
other,and ftrongly fattened in the ground, with a number of hard ftringie rootes : the 
flowers are of a reafonable good fent. 
6 . iris anguflifolia maior flere duplies. Thcgreater double blew Flowerdeluce. 
This Flowerdeluce, differeth not either in rootc or leafe from the firft great blew 
Flowerdeluce of Clufius, but oncly in that the Ieaues grow thicker together, and that 
the flowers of this kinde areas it were double with many Ieaues confufedly fet toge- 
ther, without anydiftindt parts of a Flowerdeluce, and ofafairc blew colour with 
many white veines and lines running in the Ieaues ; yet oftentimes the ftalke of flowers 
hath but two or three fmall flowers diftindtly fet together, rifing as it were out of one 
huske. 
7. Iris angaflifoliaminor alba Clujij. 
„The fmall white Flowerdeluce of Hungary. 
This likewife differeth little from the former Hungarian Flowerdeluce of Clufius, 
but 
