840 OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



Aloe, or Frefo-Water-Soldier (I), faid to grow plentifully in the 

 fens of Lincolnjfrire and //, and by yfw<//y-caufey with the fweet 

 Frogbit .; do not grow in any of our waters, fo far as I have 

 obferved. 



-i 69. The -yellow Water-Iris^ or Flag-Flower (mj, is common. It 

 flowers in June. The flowers are of a cauftic tafte. The root was 

 formerly ufed as a fuccedaneum to the true Acorus. It is aflringent 

 and acrid, and cannot be taken inwardly without danger to the 

 bowels. Four ounces of the juice caufes a violent conftipation f. 

 It is therefore at prefent juftly denied a place in all judicious me- 

 dical forms, and wifely turned out of the confectionary. Ap- 

 plied to an aching tooth, it is faid to give fpeedy relief 4-. The 

 true ACORUS is of very different powers*. 



169. We 



(!) Stratiotts f. militaris aizoides. Lob. Hift. p. 904. Aloe paluftris. C. B. Pin. p. 286. 

 Stratiotes foliis Aloes, femine longo. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 29. Stratiotes. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 

 222. Flo. Suec. n. 444. Hort. Cliff, p. 221. Stratior.es foliis cnfifbrmi-triangulis ciliato- 

 aculeatis. Sp. PI. 



t Merret. Raj. Syn. -1 c. 



(m) Iris lutea f. Pfeudo-acorus. Cord. Hif. ii. c. 43. Pfeudo-Acorum. Matih. p. 22. 

 Acomm falfum. Cam. Epit. p, 6. bene. Pfeudo-Iris. Dad. 'Pempt. p. 248. Butomon. Cluf. 

 p. 232. Iris paluftris lutea. Tabern. p. 643. Ger. p. 46. emac. p. 50. Raj. Hift. .ii. 

 p. 1 1 86. Syn. iii. p. 374. Town. Inft. p. 360. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 26. Pfeudo-iris 

 paluflris. Hort. AICHST. Vern. Ord. 8. t. 7. f. 3. pulcbre. Acorus adultcrinus. C. B. 

 Pin. p. 34. Blair. Pharm. Bot. p. 31. Iris paluftris lutea f. Acorus adulterinus. I.B.u. 

 .p. 732. Hift. Oxon. ii. p. 353. t. 6. f. u. Dill. GifT. p. 79. Dal. Pharm. p. 247. 

 Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 16. Iris foliis enfiformibus, corollis imberbibus, petatis interioribus 

 ftigmate minoribus. Hort. Cliff, p. 19. Flo. Suec. n. 33. Rcyen. lugdb. p. 18. Iiis 

 imberbis, lutea, nervo folii eminente. Hall. Helv. p. 281. 



t Blair. 4 Allen. Synopf. p. 321. Cl. Hall. cit. 



* " Ad ventriculi debilitatem fidum medicamentum eft, five acidis cruditatibus turgeaf, 

 " five flatibus vexetur in hiftericis corporibus, five naufeabundus ad vomitum nimis facilis 



' fit. 



