. 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. 474 IridacecE— Iris. 7. 1. Pseud-dcorus. Yellow Flag.—This is the common indigenous species, growing about a yard high, with long acute bright green leaves and large clear yellow flowers. Suitable for lakes and swampy places. /. Monnieri, from S. Europe, is a similar plant, with larger and brighter yellow flowers. 8. I. Jimbriata.—Of Chinese origin, and
. 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. 474 IridacecE— Iris. 7. 1. Pseud-dcorus. Yellow Flag.—This is the common indigenous species, growing about a yard high, with long acute bright green leaves and large clear yellow flowers. Suitable for lakes and swampy places. /. Monnieri, from S. Europe, is a similar plant, with larger and brighter yellow flowers. 8. I. Jimbriata.—Of Chinese origin, and one of the hand- somest of the genus. Flowers large, of a bright blue variegated with dark brown on the outer segments, which are undulated. Stigmas erect, petaloid and fringed. A tender species. 9. I. arenavia.—The dwarfest of the genus, from 2 to 4 inches high. Flowers scarcely exceeding the leaves, of a uni- form yellow. .V native of the sandy plains of Hungary. We now come to the bulbous section, whicli is bj' no means so numerous in species as the foregoing. 10. /. Xipfdu'.n (fig. 230).—Commonly known in English gardens as the Spanish Iris. Stems from 9 inches to a foot high, and furnished with narrow acute leaves. Flowers of medium size, two or three together, with narrow nearly equal seg- ments. The natural colour is an azure blue, but there are many varieties in cul- ti\'ation ranging through all shades of blue, associated with yellow and chestnut. 11. /. xipldoldes. English Bulbous Iris of florists.—Slightly different from the last, but usually 1-flowered, and the flower larger. The three exterior segments are of a bright yellow, with an orange spot in the centre of the limb, the three interior blue or violet. There are also many beautiful garden varieties of this species. This and the last are both natives of South-western Europe. 12. /. spcddhtlis.—Similar in habit, but taller than the two Lwt. The outer perianth-segments brownish, with a large orange
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