SISYRIN'CHIUM GRANDIFLORUM. 
LARGE-FLOWERED SISYRINCHIUM. 
Class. Order. 
TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
IRIDE*. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
6 inches. 
May, June. 
Perennial. 
in 1826. 
No. 573. 
The name, Sisyrinchium, is literally pigs-snout, 
see No. 497. It is supposed that the plant on which 
this name was originally bestowed by the Greeks, 
is either the Iris Sisyrinchium or Trichonema 
Bulbocodium. 
The Sisyrinchium grandiflorum is a very desir- 
able plant, but one that increases rather slowly. It 
has a neat appearance, and is unobtrusive in habit; 
being one of those subjects peculiarly adapted to 
gardens, where none but rarities are admitted to 
exhibit their splendour in the party of floral beau- 
ties. It is one of Douglas’s plants which he sent 
from the North-west coast of North America. 
Our drawing was made in the garden of the Bir- 
mingham Botanical and Horticultural society,where 
the plant was flourishing in a pot of peat, loam, and 
sand. It requires to be well drained, and may be 
divided in spring, as soon as the leaves appear. 
Amongst the plants belonging to this genus there 
exist some anomalies in respect to their parts of 
fructification, which are unfavourable to the views 
of the Linnean botanist. Whilst their natural affi- 
nities would connect them with plants of the class 
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