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• Species described during this decade
• Cultivars described during this decade
• Catalogs issued during this decade
• Articles written during this decade
• Scientists/Explorers describing Irises
• Hybridizers breeding Irises

Species discovered during this decade were:

1880....This decade 31 species; 123 cumulative

• Iris bungei Maxim., Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 26: 509 (1880).
• Iris ludwigii Maxim., Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 26: 508 (1880).
• Iris maackii Maxim., Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 26: 542 (1880).
• Iris mandshurica Maxim., Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 26: 530 (1880).
• Iris orchioides Carrière, Rev. Hort. (Paris) 52: 337 (1880).
• Iris potaninii Maxim., Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 26: 528 (1880).
• Iris stolonifera Maxim., Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 26: 535 (1880).
• Iris aitchisonii (Baker) Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 123 (1882).
• Iris danfordiae (Baker) Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 124 (1882).
• Iris heylandiana Boiss. & Reut., Fl. Orient. 5: 130 (1882).
• Iris lortetii Barbey ex Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 131 (1882).
• Iris palaestina (Baker) Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 120 (1882).
• Iris stocksii (Baker) Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 128 (1882).
• Iris tenuis S.Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 380 (1882).
• Iris milesii Baker ex Foster, Gard. Chron., n.s., 20: 231 (1883).
• Iris darwasica Regel, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 8: 679 (1884).
• Iris rosenbachiana Regel, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 8: 675 (1884).
• Iris winkleri Regel, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 8: 677 (1884).
• Iris boissieri Henriq., Bol. Soc. Brot. 3: 183 (1885).
• Iris bracteata S.Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 20: 375 (1885).
• Iris meda Stapf, Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 50: 20 (1885).
• Iris polakii Stapf, Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 50: 20 (1885).
• Iris vartanii Foster, Gard. Chron., n.s., 23: 438 (1885).
• Iris pallida subsp. cengialti (Ambrosi ex A.Kern.) Foster, Gard. Chron., n.s., 25: 555 (1886).
• Iris benacensis A.Kern. ex Stapf, Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 37: 649 (1887).
• Iris hookeriana Foster, Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 1: 611 (1887).
• Iris lineata Foster ex Regel, Gartenflora 36: 201 (1887).
• Iris barnumiae Foster & Baker, Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 4: 182 (1888).
• Iris drepanophylla Aitch. & Baker, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 3: 115 (1888).
• Iris fosteriana Aitch. & Baker, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 3: 114 (1888).
• Iris atropurpurea Baker, Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 5: 330 (1889).

Cultivars introduced during this decade were:

• Dwarfs: 'Azurea'

• Arils: 'Leichtlini'; 'Van Houttei'

• Arils: 'Leichtliniana'
• Dwarfs: 'Italica'
• Tall-bearded: 'Albert Victor'; 'Amas'; 'Robert Burns'

• Intermediates: 'Jean Sisley'; 'Kochii'
• Tall-bearded: 'Ada'; 'Beethoven'; 'Victor Hugo By Buster'

• Dwarfs: 'Holbein'; 'Lutescens Aurea'; 'Miss Owen'; 'Salvator Rosa'
• Tall-bearded: 'Germanica Major'; 'Lord Rosse'