 | John Lindley, John Torrey - 1831 - 486 σελίδες
...same station in hot climates that Iris, a closely related genus, does in cooler latitudes. PROPERTIES. More remarkable for their beautiful fugitive flowers than for their utility. The rhizoma of some of them is slightly stimulating, as the violet-cented Orris root, the produce of Iris... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1832 - 272 σελίδες
...far from abundant in South America, if compared with the numbers that exist at the Cape. Properties. More remarkable for their beautiful fugitive flowers than for their utility. The roots of some of them are slightly stimulating, as the violet-scented orris root, the produce of the... | |
 | Johann Otto Voigt - 1845 - 854 σελίδες
...viz. 6 of /m. ; 1 of Pardanthus ; (also a native of China) and 1 of Crocus. The plants of this order are " more remarkable for their beautiful fugitive flowers, than for their utility. The rhizoma of some of them is slightly stimulating, as the violet-scented Orris-root, the produce of Iris... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - 600 σελίδες
...bare-looking plains, with a robe of the deepest green, adorned with all shades of gay and sparkling colours. They are more remarkable for their beautiful...places where Irises abound ; and that of the Iris Florentina, from its agreeable odour, is employed under the name of Orrii 530 ORRIS BOOT. ORDER AMARTLLIDEjE.... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1848 - 510 σελίδες
...far from abundant in South America, if compared with the numbers that exist at the Cape. Properties. More remarkable for their beautiful fugitive flowers than for their utility. The roots of some of them are slightly stimulating, as the violet-scented orris root, the produce of the... | |
 | John Lindley - 1853 - 1076 σελίδες
...the Order, occurs only in Europe and Asia, None of the Cape or New Holland forms appear in America. More remarkable for their beautiful fugitive flowers than for their utility. The rhizome of some of them is slightly stimulating, as the violetsccnted Orris root, the produce of Iris... | |
 | John Lindley - 1853 - 1066 σελίδες
...the Order, occurs only in Europe and Asia. None of the Cape or New Holland forms appear in America. More remarkable for their beautiful fugitive flowers than for their utility. The rhizome of some of them is slightly stimulatuig, as the violet-scented Orris root, the produce of Iris... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1885 - 1140 σελίδες
...— Hardy. IRIACE^E, the Iridacese of Lindley, the iris tribe of plants. They are chiefly herbs, and are more remarkable for their beautiful fugitive flowers than for their utility. This order, however, contains the saffron (Crocus sativus) and the iris, more than one species of which... | |
| |
A few only are found within the tropics, and the order is generally far from abundant in South America, if compared with the numbers that exist at the Cape. 