IRIDACE. 155 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
GLADIOLUS. EU-COMMUNIS. 
G. communis, Koch et Auct. Plur. 
Said to be naturalised in a field near Churchgate Street, Harlow, 
Essex. (Mr. Daniel Sweeting French, in “ Flora of Essex,” p. 313.). 
IRIS PUMILA. Lim. 
Said to occur in Chartley Meadows, Leicestershire. (“ Phytologist,” 
ser. 1. vol. iii. p. 179.) 
IRIS GERMANICA. Lin. 
Reported to occur in Staffordshire about a ditch in Stoke Meadows, 
introduced. (Garner’s “ Nat. Hist. of Staffordshire,” quoted in Cyb. 
Brit. vol. ii. p. 441.) 
IRIS SUSIANA. Willd. 
Reported to having occurred, but I cannot ascertain where. 
IRIS XIPHIOIDES. Eihrnh. 
Said to have grown in Glamorganshire at Gelly Evan, near Penller- 
gare, “ Dillwyn’s Mat. for a Sita and Flora of Swansea,” quoted in 
Cyb. Brit. vol. ii. p- 440, where it is also mentioned that Mr. George 
Don asserted that he discovered it in the year 1810 in a marsh near 
Colonel Kinloch’s, growing among Carices and Junci, in a situation 
where it had never been pane ee 
IRIS XIPHIUM. L£ih. 
Stated in the old “ Botanist’s Guide” to grow in Worcestershire; 
but in the new “ Botanist’s Guide,” p. 205, it is stated, “ the introduc- 
tion of this as a Worcestershire plant is said to be an error.” 
CROCUS SATIVUS. Lin. 
S. autumnalis, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 343 (non Poir.). 
Said to have occurred in various places in the east of England, but 
there is no evidence to show that it was ever even naturalised. It used 
to be cultivated for saffron at Saffron Walden, Essex, and Hinton, 
Cambridgeshire; but the cultivation has been abandoned for about 
seventy years. 
