246 ENNEANDRIA— HEXAGYNIA. Butomus. 



Engl Bot. V. 10. ^.651. Curt. Lond.fasc. 1 . t. 29. Hook. Scot. 

 123. FLDan.t.604. Ehrh. Calam,''77. 



Butomus. Ccesalp. 553. Rail Syn.273. 



B. n. 1 186. Hall. Hist. v. 2. SO. 



Jiincus floridus, Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 384./. Camer. Epit. 781. f. 

 Blair s Bot. Ess. 215. 



J. floridus major. Bauh.Pin. 12. Theatr. 189./. 



J. cyperoides floridus paludosus. Lob. Ic. 86./. 



Gladiolus palustris Cordi. Ger. Em. 29, 3./ 



In ditches, and the margins of rivers, on a gravelly soil. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root tuberous, horizontal. Herb smooth, cellular, half immersed 

 in water. Leaves erect, narrow, acute, near a yard high. Stalk 

 solitary, still taller, round and very smooth. Umbel 4 inches, 

 or more, in diameter, interspersed with many lanceolate, brown- 

 ish bracteas. El. very handsome, rose-coloured, erect, each 

 about an inch broad, without scent. Blair, in the book above 

 quoted, calls the 3 outer petals a calyx ; but the whole 6 are 

 permanent, and so firmly connected, that perhaps they had 

 better all be termed a coloured calyx. 



