of which is daily
expected, that the plant here figured was first brought to this country
from the Canary Islands, by Mr. FRANCIS MASSON, in the year
1777.

It is highly deserving the notice of the Botanist, not only as being by
far the least species of the genus, but on account of its Nectaria;
these, though not mentioned by LINNAEUS in his character of the genus,
have been described by other authors, particularly JACQUIN and HALLER;
and though not present in most, and but faintly visible in a few species
of _Sempervivum_, in this plant form a principal part of the
fructification; they are usually seven in number, but vary from six to
eight.

In the specimens we have examined, and which perhaps have been rendered
luxuriant by culture, the number of stamina has been from twelve to
sixteen; of styles, from six to eight; of flowers on the same stalk,
from one to eight.

It flowers during most of the summer months, succeeds very well with the
common treatment of a greenhouse plant in the summer, but does best in a
dry stove in the winter.

Is readily increased by parting its roots.

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SISYRINCHIUM IRIOIDES. IRIS-LEAV'D SISYRINCHIUM.

_Class and Order._

GYNANDRIA TRIANDRIA.

_Generic Character._

Monogyna. _Spatha_ diphylla. _Petala_ 6 plana. _Capsula_ tri-locularis,
infera.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

SISYRINCHIUM _iridioides_ foliis ensiformibus; petalis
oblongo-obcordatis, venosis; germinibus pyriformibus, subhirsutis.

SISYRINCHIUM _Bermudiana._ _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 820. var. 2.
Spec. Pl. p. 1353._

BERMUDIANA iridis folio, radice fibrosa. _Dill. Elth. 48. t. 41. f. 48._

SISYRINCHIUM _Bermudiana_ foliis gladiolatis amplexicaulibus, pedunculis
brevioribus. _Miller's Dict. ed. 6. 4to._

[Illustration: No 94]

On comparing the present plant with the _Bermudiana graminea flore
minore coeruleo_ of DILLENIUS, both of which I have growing,
and now in pots before me, the difference appears so striking, that I am
induced with him and MILLER to consider them as distinct
species; especially as, on a close examination, there appear characters
sufficient to justify me in the opinion, which characters are not
altered by culture.

It is a native of the Bermudian Islands, and flowers in the open border
from May to the end of July; it is not uncommon to keep it in the
greenhouse, for which, from its size &c. it is very well adapted; but it
is not necessary to treat