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Fast flower

"Iris,'' by MA QINGXIONG, at the Lexington (Mass.) Arts and Crafts Society through June.The iris flower's fast coming and going --- brilliantly purple one minute -- and drooping and wilted seemingly the next -- signals the end of high spring.