. Bulbous irises. t shows some of thecharacters of the lusitanica variety, it is wholly different from the planti ibed by Salisbury (he. cit.) as Xiphion sordidum. It may be the/. spectabilis of Spach (Hist. Pkan. xiii. p. 20), which that authorsuggests to be ;i hybrid of /. xvphmm and xiphioides ; but, if so, Spachssuggestion is invalid. I. XIPHIUM var. BATTANDIERI - (After M. Battandier, of Algiers.) Syn. — (Battandier,£uW. Soc. Hot. ./.? France, isx-i. p.: ?Charact. Bulb, foliage, and general habil .same as in type, savethai leaves are very glaucous. Perianth very turbinate. Claw o
. Bulbous irises. t shows some of thecharacters of the lusitanica variety, it is wholly different from the planti ibed by Salisbury (he. cit.) as Xiphion sordidum. It may be the/. spectabilis of Spach (Hist. Pkan. xiii. p. 20), which that authorsuggests to be ;i hybrid of /. xvphmm and xiphioides ; but, if so, Spachssuggestion is invalid. I. XIPHIUM var. BATTANDIERI - (After M. Battandier, of Algiers.) Syn. — (Battandier,£uW. Soc. Hot. ./.? France, isx-i. p.: ?Charact. Bulb, foliage, and general habil .same as in type, savethai leaves are very glaucous. Perianth very turbinate. Claw of fallqoi elliptical and leparated by marked constriction from rounded e2 66 blade, but gradually expanding into ovate blade, there being hardlyany constriction between the two. Blade somewhat obovate-emar-ginate, with very revolute edges. Standards tall, broad, very muchtwisted. All parts of the flower a pure dead white, except the brightorange ridge on the fall. Hab.—Algiers, Marais de la Rassanta. S St. lias xiphium var. Battani>i> i;i. Note.—M. Battandier loc. cit.) regards this as being trulyI. xiphimn, the above being the only habitat in Algiers ; he considersthe common xiphi/wm-like bulbous Iris of Algiers to be I. FontanesU. A variety f /. a vphiwn gathered by Mr. Maw in the Sierra Nevadaof Spain, besides being very slender in foliage, differs from the typein the blade of the fall being relatively large, and having a distinctlycrenate edj nal, f a bright orange, is also more sharply defined than in the type. The plant, however, hardly deserves a distinct name. 9. I. SEROTINA.—Willkomm, Prodr. Fl. l[ixp.] i. p. 141.(From »< < . late.) Fig. None. Charact. Resembles I. xiphium, but appears to differ not only inits very late flowering, but in being less vigorous, with the uppeileaven very thin and awl-like, in having reddish spathe-valves, in theflowers being very much protruded from bhe spathe-valves, and 67 especially in the fall having an oblong-l
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