2-16 ENNEANDRIA— HEXAGYNIA. Butomus. 



Engl. Bot. V. 10. ^ 65 1. Curt. Lond.fasc. ] . t. 29. Hook. Scot. 



123. H.Dan, t. 604. Ehrh. Calam. 77. 

 Butomus. C(esalp.5D3. Rail Syn. 273. 

 B.n. 1186. Hall. Hist. V. 2. SO. 

 Juncus floriiius. Matth. Valgr.v.2. 384./. Camer. Epit. 781. /. 



Blair's Bot. Ess. 215. 

 J. floridus major. Bauh.Pin. 12. Theatr. 189./. 

 J. cyperoides floridus paludosus. Lob. Ic. 86./. 

 Gladiolus palustris Cordi. Ger. Em. 29, 3./. 



In ditches, and the margins of rivers, on a gravelly soil. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root tuberous, horizontal. Herb smooth, cellular, half immersed 

 in water. Leaves erect, narrow, acute, near a yard high. Stalk 

 solitary, still taller, round and veiy smooth. Umbel 4 inches, 

 or more, in diameter, interspersed with many lanceolate, brown- 

 ish bracteas. Fl. very handsome, rose-coloured, erect, each 

 about an inch broad, without scent. Blair, in the book above 

 quoted, calls the 3 outer petals a calyx ; but the whole 6 are 

 permanent, and so firmly connected, that perhaps they had 

 better all be termed a coloured calyx. 



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