1884 SILVER DOLLAR VALUE

Sallow Kitten (Furcula furcula), a rather cute little moth.

Conditions were great for mothing and there were 7 new species of moths for the garden, plus several new ones for this year. Other highlights for me were two Elephant Hawk-moths and the really pretty Small Angle Shades.

Flame-shoulder 4
Clouded-bordered Brindle 9
Brimstone Moth 4
Rivulet 4
Heart & Dart 18
Chinese Character 2
Treble Lines 9
Silver-ground Carpet 7
White Ermine 5
Grey/Dark Dagger 1
Garden Carpet 3
Flame 5
Spectacle 2
Bright-line Brown-eye 2 (NFY)
Clouded Silver 1 (NFY)
Elephant Hawkmoth 2 (NFY)
Blood-vein 2
Pale Prominent 1
Straw Dot 5 (NFY)
Green Carpet 3
Least Black Arches 1
Alder Moth 1 (NFG)
Broad-barred White 1 (NFG)
Rustic Shoulder-knot 2
Small Square-spot 1
Small Angle Shades 1 (NFG)
Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
Common Carpet 2 (NFY)
Marbled Minor agg. 4 (NFY)
Middle-barred Minor 3 (NFY)
Willow Beauty 1 (NFY)
Pale Oak Beauty 1 (NFG)
May Highflyer 1
Common Swift 2 (NFG)
Sallow Kitten 1 (NFG)
Pale-shouldered Brocade 1 (NFG)
Brown Rustic 1
Common Pug 5
Plus various other pugs I'm not sure about yet.

Micros
Twenty-plume Moth 1
Bee Moth 1 (NFY, female)
Mint Moth 1
Celypha lacunana
Scoparia ambigualis
Crambus lathoniellus

Plus various other micros.

These irises are Meredith College's official flower, the Meredith Hues Iris.
"The iris as the college flower is mentioned in archival records as early as 1904, in connection with the changing of the college colors to maroon and white from the "less dignified" palette of violet and gold. A silver iris tops the ellipse and medallion on the ceremonial mace; a pattern of irises entertwine acorns and oak leaves along the border of the old Meredith plate, designed by Mary Tillery, '22, in 1935 and produced in England by Wedgwood; a springtime ring of Meredith Hues Irises dresses up the entryway to Johnson Hall; and an iris garden near Cate Center honors charter members of the Iris Society, an alumnae giving club established in 1997.

Also in 1997, the Meredith Hues Iris, created and registered in 1968 by Loleta Kenan Powell, '41, "renowned iris and day lily grower," was recognized as the official college flower."