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Show the BR 1 TIS HW The leaves are fhort, fharp-pointed, edged on both fides, and of a pale green, witha tinge of greyifh. The ftalk is two feet high; and the flowers are large, andof a pale yellow. We have it by waters. It flowers in June, Ray calls it Iris paluftris pallida. HERBAL BRITISH The leaves, when bruifed, have a ftrong, un- g. Stinking Flag-flower, called Gladdon, C. Bauhine calls it Gladiolus fetidus. Others, Xyris, Iris fetida, and Spatula fetida. Our Iris fetida Xyris difta. MiP Mp Ls ELE QELIES LEE OEE SRE a Oe eR EN NMRA ARO Da Vai-S 1.0. N Ci Aces ee A. its top ftand feveral large flowers: thefe are of a Iris hortenfis vulgaris. very beautiful blue. It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, and flowers in Auguft. GE preceding from all otherplants. Their T= are diftinguifhed by Natureas perfectly as the mafly and ir- their roots are either leaves have the afpect of thofe of the bulbous tribe; but rifing from a thick head. regular, or formedof double parts, or of implicated fibres, calling them herbe bulbofis affines, and This diftinétion of Nature Ray and others have followed, oN pin A LA fferent parts of his works, keeping them togetherin one clafs. But Linneeus has {cattered themoverdi C. Bauhine calls it Iris ceruleavulgaris. The juice of the root expreffed, with white wine, is a rough purge, but excellent in dropfies- UU; BAST AR DA in the flower. taking his characters not from thefe larger parts, but from the threads = SP HO Dek ti L. NGivU ™M. 2. Dwarf Baftard-A fphodell. 1, Lancafhite Baftard Afphodell. Phalangiumiridis folio majus. Thofe of which one or more fpecies are found wild in this country. S t: FLAG-FLOWER. i RPMS: fwords. The flower is formedof HE root is mafly and irregular. The leaves are edged as and the other one petal, divided into fix parts: three of thefe ftand outward, and turn back; three are placed inward, andare erect. The feed-veffel is oblong, and angulated. being three, and the Linnzus places this among the ériandria monogynia, the filaments in the flower ftyle fingle. B Ret StH I. Dry best oO N 1. Common Flag- Flower. Tris lutea 7 aris. MLE: ail 7 The root is brown, thick, and creeping. The leaves are very long, fomewhat broad, of a pale green, edged on each fide, and fharppointed. The ftalk is a yard high, of a pale green, and befer with a few fhorterleaves. The flowers are large andyellow. It is common by water, and flowers in July. a Phalangium minimum, The root has many thick, brownfibres. BrRiTisH GENERA. eeu) s\ 2 E eres: C. Bauhine calls it Acorus adulterinus. Lris paluftris lutea. Others Thedried roots are diuretick, and good againtt obftruétions of the vifcera. 2. Whitifh Flag-Flower. Iris pallidior, Therootis thick, and fpreads irregularly un derthe furface. The leaves The flowers are formed eachofa fingle petal, divided into fix unequal ftarry feg- iments. The feed-veffel is three-cornered. Linnzeus places this among the bexandria, the threads in the flower being fix. eS aan i head. HE root confifts of numerous implicatedfibres, rifing from a fhort, thick are graffy. G ($\P EiC2£,S, Blue Flower-de-Luce. The leaves ate long, broad, of a deep green, edged on bothfides, and fharp-pointed. The ftalk is two feet and a half high, and at . leaves are graffy, and whofe roots are not bulbous people, Stinking Gladdon. FO RELGWN The root is thick and fpreading. lar firuture 5 whofe Plants whofe flower is confpicuous, and of an irregu 473 The leaves are numerous, long, edged, and pointed, andof a deep green, Ee Theftalk is two feet high, and at the top ftand feveral flowers: they are large, but of a greyith difagreeable colour. pleafant fimell. It is common in damp places, and flowers in Auguft. The rootis thick, and fpreads under the furface. ee AS, Ms HES GEE EE HER RA‘, = The The leaves are long, of a bluith green, fharppointed, and edged on the two fides. The ftalk is upright, and two feet high. The flowers grow at the top in a long, beautiful fpike; and are fmall, and of a gold yellow, It is found on bogsin fome parts of England, but is not common. It Aowers in Augutt. €. Bathine calls it P/ewdo-afphodelus palufiris Anglicus, Others, Afphodelus Lancafiria. G E N OF R The root is compofed of innumerable fibres, rifing froma fmall, thick head. The leaves are of a dufky green, long, narrow, and fharp at the point and edges. The ftalk is flender, and eight inches high. The flowers ftandat the top in a loofe irregular {pikes and they are {mall, andof a pale yellow. It is found on bogsin Scotland, and the north of England. It flowers in July. Raycalls it PhalangiumScoticum paluftre mini- mumiridis folio. Us GAA Iii. Ls. no cup. Each is compofed of five petals, HE flowers are colleéted into a fpike; and they have ftand outward, and the two others inIs peta the of Three . and furnifhed with a neGtarium The neétarium is formed into two lips hood. of kind a form , upwards ward; and thefe two rifing the petals. The feed-veffe] is obs between place its has it and a bafe, and is fixed to the receptacle : : ely broad. moderat and obl ong, are leaves The long, andthe feeds are minute. of this genus ; but it is more adfpecies various the for Englith in names irregular many We have Vifable to retain the Latin name orchis, ‘5, which is very familiar, to themall. roundifh, but in fome The roots afford no certain character : they are in moft fp ecies double and triple, in others handled, and in fome only fingle. N ter here given, we 3 l characters the genera It is a very extenfive as well as fingular genus 5 and, after general in that tedioufnefs and prolixity too without fpecies, the of ces differen the hopeto explain the accounts of them in authors. ents being two, and thefe inferted Linnzus ranges them among the gyn andria diandria ; the filam pn 6E Ne 47. |