ixia

• She went to the chimney-piece, and employed herself in making a delicate piece of ixia get a better view of itself in the looking-glass. —  Abbeychurch
• From tufted masses of sword-like leaves shoot up the tall spires of the _yucca_, heavy with pendent flowers, of pallid hue, like the moon, and from the grass gleams the blue eye of the starry _ixia_. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863

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