50 TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Schocnus. 



2. Y.fcetidissima. Stinking Iris, or Gladwyn. Roast- 

 beef plant. 



Corolla beardless ; inner segments spreading. Stem with 

 one angle. Leaves sword-shaped. Seeds globose. 



I. foetidissima. Linn. Sp. PL 57. mild. v. 1 . 232. Vahl Enum. 



v. 2. 139. Fl. Br. 42. Engl Bot. v. 9. I 596. Poit. $ Turp. 



Par. t. 45. 

 I. sylvestris quam Xyrim vocant. Rail Syn.375. 

 Xyris. Ger.Em.GO.f. Matth.Valgr.v. 2.340./. Camer. Epit.7 33. f. 

 Sphatula foetida. Fuchs. Hist. 793./. 794. Trag. Hist. 904./. 



In groves, thickets, and under hedges, but rather rare. Dr. Wither- 

 ing observed it to be very common in all the south-west counties. 



Perennial. May. 



About 2 feet high. Leaves dull green, exhaling, when rubbed, a 

 scent compared to that of roast beef, to which it is no compli- 

 ment. Fl. dull pale purple, pencilled with dark veins. Seeds 

 orange-coloured, polished. 



## FL inferior, chaffy. Seed 1. 

 22. SCHCENUS. Bog-rush. 



Linn. Gen. P/.29. Juss.27. Fl. Br. 42. Br. Pr. 231. Lam. t. 38./. 1 . 

 Chsetospora. Br. Pr. 232. 



Nat. Ord. Calamarice. Linn. 3. Cyperoidece. Juss. 9. Cy- 

 peracece. Decand. 13-k Br. Pr. 212. Five following 

 genera belong to the same. See Grammar 68, 198. 



[This natural order, for which I prefer the original name of 

 Calamarice, has received great illustration by Mr. Brown's 

 discoveries in New Holland; and from his Prodromus 

 the following characters, in addition to Jussieu's, given 

 in the Grammar, are principally taken. My calyx, con- 

 sisting of a single scale or glume to each Jlower, and often 

 accompanied by many smaller empty ones in each spike, 

 is the palea (chaff or scale) of Mr. Brown. The Perianth, 

 or Calyx, of this author, is either wanting, or consists of 

 rough bristles, various in number, or more rarely is mem- 

 branous, as in the genus Carex, consisting in that instance 

 of 1 valve; in others of 3. But my objection to this view 

 of the subject is, that these bristles, or membranous parts, 

 are situated between the stamens and germen, and cannot 

 therefore be either calyx or corolla, but are rather an 

 appendage to the germen and seed, which latter they ac- 

 company to the last. 



The stamens are " of a definite number, generally 3, some- 



