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By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 211 
Dr. R. C. Prior. “ Woods at Radlow and Box,” Mr. C. #. Broome. 
5. North-east District. In the Beech Woods on Roundway Hill. 
“ Roundhill Copse,” Flor. Marlb. Not common in Wilts. Stema 
foot or more high. Flowers remote, racemouse, quite erect ; sepals 
all nearly equal, large, oblong-ovate, obtuse, cream coloured, concave, 
including the small wp, which is also white, but yellowish within. 
[C. ensifolia, (Rich.) sword or narrow-leaved white Helleborine, 
Engl, Bot. t. 494, has been observed by the Rev. £. Simms. at 
- Whiteparish Hill, (South-east District.) I have not seen any ex- 
amples. | 
ORDER. IRIDACE, (JUSS.) 
Tris, (Linn.) Fae. 
Linn. Cl. iii. Ord. i. 
Name. Iris is Greek for a rambow; and applied to the plant in 
reference to the brilliancy of its colours, and the graceful curve of 
its petals. 
1. I. Pseud-acorus, (Linn.) Yellow water Inis, or Yellow Flag. 
Pseud-acorus, from pseudos, false, and akoros, in allusion to its re- 
sembling the Acorws calamus in leaf, though not in flower. Lgl. 
Bot. t. 578. 
Locality. In wet meadows and ditches, and on the margins of 
- pools ; also by the sides of the Avon. P. HM. June, July. Area, 1. 
2. 38. 4. 5. In all the Districts not uncommon. Flowers upright, 
showy of a yellow colour, the three outer and larger petals, reflexed, 
their disk pencilled with dark purple. The stigma of this plant in 
particular deserves to be noticed by the student, being in form and 
substance more like the petals than the part it really is.’ 
2. I. fetidissima, (Linn.) stinking Iris. Gladdon. ngl. Bot. 
t. 596. Reich Icones, ix. 347. 
Locality. Copses and bushy places, chiefly on chalk; not common. 
P. Hl. May, July. Area, 1. * * 4. 5. 
South Division. 
1. South-east District. “ Between Salisbury and Whiteparish,” 
1A very curious account of the agency of insects in promoting the fertilization 
of the different species of Iris may be seen in that very entertaining and in- 
structive work ‘‘ Kirby and Spence’s Introduction to Entomology,”—vol. i. p. 
293, and in “‘ Dr, Withering’s Bot. Arr.,”—vol. ii. p. 96, 
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