H' I.:
IR IS haeinatophylla.
Red-leaved Iris.
Natural Order. Ik id e a :. Brown prodr. ^02.
IR I S . Supra, fo l. 68.
I. hamatophylla, imberbis, foliis linearibus laxis scapo multo
longioribus, spathis duabus oppositis acutis, floribus pedicel-
latis, germine trigono. Link enum. 1. p. 60. Schult. mant.
1. p. 315.
Iris hmmatophylla. Fischer Mss.
Iris sibirica y. sanguinea. Botan. magaz. 1604.
Iris sanguinea. Rcem. et Schult. syst. 1. p . 475. Donn hort.
cant. ed. 6. p. 17. Hornem. hort. hafn. 1. p. 58.
A tufted perennial. Leaves longer than the scape,
weak, lax, linear, acute, slightly twisted, striate, when
young more or less of a blood red or dark purple colour,
becoming at length pale yellowish green, and only
purple at the base. Scape long, striate, a little flattened,
2 or 3-flowered. Sheaths 2, opposite, acute,
keeled, enclosing the base of the peduncles. Peduncles
obsoletely 3-sided. Germen obtusely 3-sided, silicate,
rugged. Perianthium 6-parted, tube very short,
scarcely any ; outer lacinice largest, reflexed, obovate,
narrowed at the base, in some flowers pale blue, variegated
with purple and yellow net-work from about
the middle: in others darker blue, also variegated with
white, yellow, and purple; inner lacinice erect at first,
incurved, narrower, acute, rather darker, and slightly
variegated at the base. Stamens 3, inserted in the
base of the lacinise. Style short. Stigmas 3, petallike,
purple, bifid at the point, and a little jagged by
the sides.
F 2