IRIDACE^. 155 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 

 GLADIOLUS. EU-COMMUNIS. 



G. communis, Koch et Aud. 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. Linn. 



Said to occur in Chartley IMeadows, Leicestershire. (" Phytologist," 

 ser. i. vol. iii. p. 179.) 



IRIS GERMANICA. Linn. 



Reported to occur in Staffordshire about a ditch in Stoke Meadows, 

 introduced. (Garner's " Nat. Hist, of Staffordshii'e," quoted in Cyb. 

 Brit. vol. ii. p. 441.) 



IRIS SUSIANA. Willi. 

 Reported to having occurred, but I cannot ascertain where. 



IRIS XIPHIOIDES. Mrh. 



Said to have grown in Glamorganshire at Gelly Evan, near Penller- 

 gare, " DiUwyn's Mat. for a Fauna 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 cultivated. 



IRIS XIPHIUM. Ehrh. 



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. Linn. 



S. autumnalis, 8m. 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 J but the cultivation has been abandoned for about 

 seventy years. 



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