460 IRIS VERSICOLOR. 
service to a majority of those who took it, for a cer- 
tain time. That it did not always cure the dis- 
ease, is areproach which it must divide with diuret- 
ic remedies of much older celebrity. 
The Iris gracilis, a species described in the 
Florula Bostoniensis, the Iris pseudacorus of Eu- 
rope, and several others of the genus, appear to 
possess properties very similar to those of the 
plant described. 
BOTANICAL REFERENCES. 
Iris versicolor, Lin. Sp. pl.—Dinuentus, Elth. t. 155.— 
Curris, Bot. Mag. t. 21, a variety—Pursn, i, 29. —ELiorr, 
Car.i. 45. Waurer, Car. 67. 
MEDICAL REFERENCES, 
Bartram, travels, 454, Lond. edit—CwurierR, Mem. ‘Amer. 
Acad. 405—6.—Macsring, in Elliott’s Car. i, 45. 
PLATE XVI. 
Fig. 1. Tris versicolor. 
Fig. 2. Style and stigmas with a stamen. 
