In message , Jeff Layman
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"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message
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Youall would seem to have resolved this one. Thanks.

I'm used to seeing Iris siberica in dense clumps in gardens, so I
hadn't considered it. Stace says that the stems are hollow, and the
bracts are brown and papery when in flower, so I can check these
features out if I have the opportunity.

I've now found another Iris, by another canal. Is this Iris spuria?

http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Iris155.jpg

Look to me like Iris laevigata.

Now that you mention it, it does.

I also found a lily that appears to have escaped into the wildish.
It's growing in a riverside corridor through a park, but that corridor
shows now evidence of recent cultivation. (The lime trees might have
been planted many years ago.)

http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Lilium64.jpg

Lilium pyrenaicum?

Could well be.


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Stewart Robert Hinsley