. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Iridc acca-- -Iris. 473 section in cultivation. It is a native of Central Europe, and extremely hardy. There are numerous varieties, and many of them are strikingly handsome. The prevailing colour is some shade of blue or violet, occasionally yellowish or white, and prettily reticulated. The segments of the perianth are nearly equal. Leaves large and fl
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Iridc acca-- -Iris. 473 section in cultivation. It is a native of Central Europe, and extremely hardy. There are numerous varieties, and many of them are strikingly handsome. The prevailing colour is some shade of blue or violet, occasionally yellowish or white, and prettily reticulated. The segments of the perianth are nearly equal. Leaves large and fleshy ; stems several-flowered ; flowers stalked. The flowers appear from May to July. 3. I. Florentlna.—Scarcely differing from the last, but distinguished from ' it by its quite white flowers rayed witli ' pale yellow on the outer divisions. The rhizome- is odoriferous and offi- cinal, under the name of Oiris-root. 4. /. variegata.—From Austria and Hungary, with linear channelled leaves and large yellow flowers, whose exterior segments are bearded and marked with brown, and bordered with pale rose. 5. /. lurida.—A South European species with robust broad leaves and medium flowers, brownish violet tinged with yellow. 6. /. spuria.—Native of Spain and Barbary, having long acute leaves and bright blue medium flowers with a large bright yellow spot on the three outer segments. Not so hardy as some. I. ochroletica is similar to the foregoing, from the same countries, and probably only a variety of it. Flowers of a yellowish white with a blotch of bright yellow on each of the outer perianth-segments. I. versicolor is a dwarf North American species with short leaves and much smaller flowers than in any of the preceding, of a violet brown with a bright yellow spot on the very broad limb of the three outer segments. /. crlstata also a North American species, of very diminutive stature, about 6 inches high, and very short leaves. Flowers below the middle size, geminate, of a bri
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