Re: SPEC: versicolor?
- To: i*@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: SPEC: versicolor?
- From: c* s*
- Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 20:06:44 -0600
- References: <l03130303b28a5505b394@[207.150.44.5]> <001601be1cd6$f2c79de0$5ec2f8ce@dmason>
From: celia storey <storey@aristotle.net>
Ellen writes of the irises my cousins report from Newport, RI:
> If they were I. prismatica and are still there, let us know. What
> a find that would be.
Ellen, you may have just solved a family puzzle. Years and years ago when
my mom was a girl in Rhode Island, she came in from a hike one day and
mentioned to her older brother, John Lynch, that she'd seen some small
violet-blue irises in the swamp. John was a budding naturalist at the time
-- later he blossomed into a wildflower expert in Southern Louisiana -- and
Mom remembers that he went "nuts" and praised and petted her. It puzzled
her rather a lot.
Possibly he thought she had found some prismatica.
Mom couldn't understand his reaction, because swamp irises were common things.
celia
s*@aristotle.net
Little Rock, Arkansas, USDA Zone 7b
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257 feet above sea level,
average rainfall about 50 inches (more than 60" in '97)
average relative humidity (at 6 a.m.) 84%.
moderate winters, hot summers ... but lots of seesaw action in all seasons
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