The rare and singular species here represented, a native of the warmer parts of America, and the West-Indies, flowered with Mr. Whitley, Nurseryman, Old-Brompton, in Feb. 1799, and at irregular periods before that time; he informs me that it is not constant as to the time of its blowing, and that though the plant flowers with him, it never assumes a fine healthy green appearance, he propagates it by dividing its limbs or branches, which often put forth small roots; the plant grows in a pot, in a mixture of loam and peat or bog-earth, and is kept constantly plunged in the tan-pit of the stove. [464] [Illustration: Nº. 464] Sisyrinchium Gramineum. Grass-Leaved Sisyrinchium. _Class and Order._ Gynandria Triandria. _Generic Character._ _Spatha_ 2-phylla. _Petala_ 6-plana. _Caps._ 3-locularis infera 3-valvis. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ SISYRINCHIUM _gramineum_ caule ancipiti lato, germinibus glabris. SISYRINCHIUM _angustifolium_ foliis lineari-gladiolatis, pedunculis longioribus. _Mill. Dict._ SISYRINCHIUM _cæruleum_ parvum, gladiato caule, virginianum. _Pluk. alm. 348. t. 61. f. 1._ BERMUDIANA graminea, flore minore cæruleo. _Dill. Elth. 49. t. 41. f. 49._ GLADIOLUS cæruleus hexapetalus caule etiam gladiato. _Banist. virg. 1926._ In a former Number of this Work, we gave a figure of the large variety of _Sisyrinch. Bermud._ of _Linn._ regarding it as a distinct species, and naming it _iridioides_, conformably to Dillenius's specific description; we regret now that we did not continue to it the name of _Bermudiana_ (it being the true Bermudas plant) and which cannot with propriety be applied to the present species, a native of Virginia, far more diminutive, with flowers much smaller, of a paler blue colour, a much hardier plant also, and of more ready growth; it is indeed a truly hardy perennial, adapted to the open border, in which it will grow readily, and produce abundance of flowering stems in June and July; the flowers expand to the sun, and are followed by numerous seed-vessels which ripen their seeds, by which the plant may be increased, or by parting its roots in the autumn. Its stalk affords an excellent example of the _caulis anceps_. We readily embrace the opportunity here afforded us of correcting an error in regard to the hardiness of the _Sisyrinch. iridioides_, which we were led into partly by Miller's account, and partly from observing the plant to survive a mild winter in the open ground; we have since found that it is a tender plant, and to be ranked with those of the greenhouse; an additional proof of its being a distinct species from the one here figured, which has long[7] been cultivated in our gardens. FOOTNOTE: [7] By Mr. Jacob Bobart, in 1693. _Ait. Kew._ [465] [Illustration: Nº. 465] Indigofera Angustifolia. Narrow-Leaved Indigo. _Class and Order._ Diadelphia Decandria. _Generic Character._