. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 496. Iris germanica. 1. IRIS. Fleur-de-lis. Flag. Mostly strong plants, with rhizomes or tubers: flowers mostly large and showy, the 3 outer segments recurving and the 3 inner ones usually smaller and more erect or sometimes incurving; the 3 long divisions of the style petal-like and often more or less hairy, covering the stamens; stigma on the under side of the style: leaves long and sword- shaped. Several wild and many cultivated species. The following species have rhizomes: a. Flowers yel
. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 496. Iris germanica. 1. IRIS. Fleur-de-lis. Flag. Mostly strong plants, with rhizomes or tubers: flowers mostly large and showy, the 3 outer segments recurving and the 3 inner ones usually smaller and more erect or sometimes incurving; the 3 long divisions of the style petal-like and often more or less hairy, covering the stamens; stigma on the under side of the style: leaves long and sword- shaped. Several wild and many cultivated species. The following species have rhizomes: a. Flowers yellow. I. Pseudacorus, Linn. Common yellow flag. One to 3 ft., with several-flowered, often branching stems; outer divisions of the perianth with no hairs or crests; flowers bright yellow. Europe. aa. Flowers in shades of blue (sometimes varying to white). I. versicolor, Linn. Common wild blue flag. Two to 3 ft., stout: leaves ?£in. wide, flat: flowers about 3 in. long, short-stalked violet-blue, the tube shorter than the ovary, the inner petals small and the outer ones with no hairs. Swamps. I. laevigata, Fisch. & Mey. (/. Kacmpferi, Sieb.). Japanese iris. Two to 3 feet, the stem much overtopping the thin, broad leaves: flowers large (sometimes several inches across), flat, the inner lobes spreading, the outer ones very large and rounded, with no hairs or crests: color mostly in shades of blue and purple. Japan; now one of the choicest of garden irises. I. germanica, Linn. Common blue flag of gardens (sometimes runs wild). Fig. 496. Two to 3 ft, with long sword-shaped leaves: flowers few or several to each stem, about 3-4 in. across, the drooping outer segments with yellow hairs, the inner segments erect and arching inward. Europe. 2. CROCUS. Crocus. Small, stemless plants, the long-tubed flowers and the grass-like leaves arising directly from the coated corm: flowers with the 6 obovate divisions all alike and erect- spreading or the inner ones a little the smaller, opening
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