This species of Iris, inferior to few in point of beauty, is a native of the hilly pastures of Hungary, and flowers in our gardens in the month of May, and beginning of June. It is a hardy perennial, requires no particular treatment, and may be easily propagated by parting its roots in Autumn. [17] ~Cactus flagelliformis. Creeping Cereus.~ _Class and Order._ ~Icosandria Monogynia.~ _Generic Character._ _Calyx_ 1-phyllus, superus, imbricatus. _Corolla_ multiplex. _Bacca_ 1-locularis, polysperma. _Specific Character._ CACTUS _flagelliformis_ repens decemangularis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed._ 14 _p._ 460. CEREUS _flagelliformis_. _Miller's Gard. Dict. ed._ 6. 4_to._ [Illustration: No. 17] Grows spontaneously in South-America, and the West-Indies, flowers in our dry stoves early in June, is tolerably hardy, and will thrive even in a common green-house, that has a flue to keep out the severe frosts. It is superior to all its congeners in the brilliancy of its colour, nor are its blossoms so fugacious as many of the other species. No plant is more easily propagated by cuttings; these Miller recommends to be laid by in a dry place for a fortnight, or three weeks, then to be planted in pots, filled with a mixture of loam and lime rubbish, having some stones laid in the bottom of the pot to drain off the moisture, and afterwards plunged into a gentle hot-bed of Tanners bark, to facilitate their rooting, giving them once a week a gentle watering: this business to be done the beginning of July. It is seldom that this plant perfects its seeds in this country: Miller relates that it has borne fruit in Chelsea gardens. [18] ~Geranium Reichardi. Dwarf Geranium.~ _Class and Order._ ~Monadelphia Decandria.~ _General Character._ Monogynia. Stigmata 5. Fructus rostratus, 5-coccus. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ GERANIUM _Reichardi_ scapis unifloris, floribus pentandris, foliis subreniformibus inciso-crenatis. GERANIUM _Reichardi_ scapis unifloris, foliis plerisque oblongis trilobis vel quinquelobis inciso-crenatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. Murr._ 14. _p._ 618. [Illustration: No. 18] This species of Geranium, so strikingly different from all others at present cultivated in our gardens, has been known for several years to the Nursery-men in the neighbourhood of London, by the name of _acaule_, a name we should gladly have retained, had not Professor Murray described it in the 14th edition of Linnaeus's _Systema Vegetabilium_, under the name of _Reichardi_, a name he was disposed to give it in compliment to a French gentleman, who first discovered it in the island of Minorca, and introduced it into the gardens of France.