Perry's Pygmy, maybe

Hi folks,
	The attachment is a photo of an iris that came to me from a gardening 
friend here in Ithaca; he says it is Perry's Pigmy.  Over the years I have 
twice thought I had PP, or its offspring.  One was from the SIGNA seed 
exchange; I got two mature plants, both of which were 
non-descript  sanguinea types about 24" in height.  I also had a 15" 
blue-violet dwarf which I thought might be PP.  I thought I had nailed it 
by process of elimination, by studying the checklist.  Eventually I 
realized that there are a lot of dwarf cv's out there, and the checklist 
description of Perry's Pygmy is so vague that there was really no way to 
have confidence in the ID.
	The plant in the photo is a smallish sibirica type, kind of similar to 
Little Blue Sparkler or Papillon.  In my friend's garden it was about 20" 
tall, which is very short for a sibirica, but it may be blooming short this 
year due to the weather.  The browning bracts in the photo are most likely 
due to the clump just having been divided & transplanted.  My friend got it 
from Elizabeth Sheldon, the garden writer.
	Does any one have a Perry's Pigmy with good provenance?  Is it anything 
like this photo and description?
	Ken
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