previously been 
► be explained by the fact that 
The fir 
German bot 
tanist, E. a 
E. von Berg (1782—1855) 
records of iris seed raising have been published in the 
meal Journal Flora of 1833 and 1835 by the amateur bo- 
k B a TS Ntumnkii-chen (Mecklenburg-Strelitz). In his 
he^ described the species of irises he cultivated and the 
' 1 the second, he gives an additional list of 
seedlings and some C o..^, .. r avs A 
hybridized, and suppose that^ail his iri 
not of £ much nS * The results recorded by von Berg an 
, had he recorded not onl: 
J r because of the uncertainty about tb< 
Irises von Berg chiefly experi 
""" squaiens, plicata. neelecta and a few nthpr tal 
hey'were derived^ the ^^ 1 ^ gB ]d UI ^ er the ^mother plants fron 
kucata 
1 * ®bbatena^foim. I,a ^^^ a * orm * 
WQUOTA a "rt^^bou, variegata forma. 
""'Si ?„*£'*“’ *« •». description .bis seems to be a varie- 
ISi^&a^sssKES 
^ of its a Bermanica-Iike flower 
whitish w he desc ribes a % rds ’ name d expanda. Under 
Iris * which *8 identical withthl^J^° m flor entina or another 
un ™e mother plant 
