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Both the popular and the botanical names of the species refer to resemble roast beef and Garlic, and it has from that been occa- 
tue odour ot the leaves, which has been compared, as in I. sionally termed the Boast Beef Plant, 
seu acorns, to rancid bacon, or by some has been thought to In the same group as I. Kaempferi (referred to on page 215) are 
Fig. 61.—Iris longipetala. 
two other species that deserve notice—namely, I. longipetala petala is one of the two beautiful Irises found by Mr. Douglas 
(represented in the annexed engraving), and I. fulva. I. longi- during the Beechey expedition, and like I. Douglasiana, to which 
