OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



'170. We have the blue-floivered Iris (n) in boggy place?, but it is 

 not common. The root has a contrary 'effect from the former. 

 It is a violent cathartic. It is a favourite remedy with fome 

 people for the dropfy. A learned foreigner * ufed to give the 

 juice of it every other day, from one to four ounces, mixed 

 with half an ounce of cream of tartar ; whofe example was fol- 

 lowed by others. The flowers are tinctorial. An elegant green 

 colour is drawn from them f. It flowers in June. 



The pale purple-flowered Water-Gladloh (o), faid to be plentiful 

 in Winander-msre , and Hull > s-'water i in Weftniorland, and in Grayfori- 



terne 



f( fit, Qofis cruJi qualem exiftimo efficaciflimi fumi, ad duas drachmas, r.eque male puto 

 " in vino Burgundico infundi, quod confi'ium eft CHOMELII. Aquam diftiliatarn, non, ut 

 " BOERHAAVIUS & HERMANNUS ingratam, fed omnino arornaticam exhibet. I. A. WE- 

 " DEL. in difs. propria. 



" Facillimus eft agnitu. Longa folia, tres & ultra lineas lata, a nervo insequaliter divi- 

 " dun'tur, & altera medietas tranfverfis 'rugis plicatur. Typha flava, unica, foliis brevior. 

 <'< Sapore aromatico omnes ftirpes ifeptentrionis indigenas 'facile fuperA. HALL. HELV". 

 p. 259. 



(n) Gladiolus caeru^eus. Trar. p. ^99. Iris fylveftriy. Cord. Hift. i. 5i. c. 40. Mittb. 

 p. 17. Tab. p. 64.8. Iris fylveftris rnajor. Cam. Epit. p. 2. Iris latifolia major vulgai is. 

 Cluf. Hift. p. 224. Iris in BELGIO purpurea. Dtrd. Pempt. p. 233. Iris Vulgaiis violacea. 

 f. purpurea fylveftris. 7. B. ii. p. 709. Irisvulgaris GEK.MANICA f. fylveflrris. C. B. Pin. 

 p. 30. Tourn, Inft. p. 358. Rupp. Flo; Jen. p. 25. Iris vulgar!?. Raj. Hift. ii. p. 1180. 

 Dal. Pharm. p. 247. Iris corollis barbatis, caule foliis longiore, multifloro. Linn. Hort. 

 Cliff, p. 18. Royen. lugdb; p. 17. Hall Helv. p. 280. 



* Chomel. f Ex floribus elegans color viriclis paratur. Haller. I.e. 



(o) Gladiolus aquaticus f; Gladiolus paluftris. Did. Pempt. p. 950. Gladiolus ftag- 

 nalis DORTMANNI. Cluf. cur. 40. Raj. Hid. ii. p. 1325. Syn. iii. p. 237. Lucoicum 

 paluftre, flore fubcxruleo. C. B. Pin. p. 202. DORTMANNA paluflris, floribus fpurfis 



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