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The leaves are fhort, fharp-pointed, edged on 
both fides, and of a pale green, with a tinge of 
greythh. : 
The ftalk is two feet high; and the flowers 
are large, and of a pale yellow. 
We have it by waters. It flowers in June. 
Ray calls it Iris paluftris pallida. 
3. Stinking Flag-flower, called Gladdon. 
Iris fatida Xyris difta. 
The root is thick, and fpreads under the fur- 
face. 
DIVISION II. 
Blue Flower-de-Luce, 
Iris hortenfis vulgaris. 
‘The root is thick and fpreading. 
The leaves are long, broad, of a deep green, 
- edged on both fides, and fharp-pointed. 
The ftalk is two feet and a half high, and at 
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The leaves are numerous, long, edged, and 
pointed, and of a deep green, 
The ftalk is two feet high, and at the top ftand 
feveral flowers: they are large, but of a greyith 
difagreeable colour. 
The leaves, when bruifed, have a ftrong, un- 
pleafant fmell. 
It is common in damp places, and flowers in 
Auguft, 
C. Bauhine calls it Gladiolus fetidus. 
Ayris, Iris fetida, and Spatula fatida, 
people, Stinking Gladdon. 
Others, 
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its top ftand feveral large flowers: thefe are of a 
very beautiful blue. 
It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, 
and flowers in Augutt. 
C. Bauhine calls it [ris cerulea vulgaris, 
The juice of the root expreffed, with white 
wine, is a rough purge, but excellent in dropfies. 
I. 
BASTARD-ASPHODELL. 
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PP HE root confifts of numerous implicated fibres, rifing from a fhort, thick head. The leaves 
are grafly. ‘The flowers are formed each of a fingle petal, divided into fix unequal ftarry feg- 
ments. The feed-veffel is three-cornered. 
Linnaeus places this among the hexandria, the threads in the flower being fix. 
x. Lancafhire Baftard Afphodell. 
Phalangium iridis folio majus. 
The root has many thick, brown fibres. 
‘The leaves are long, of a bluifh green, fharp- 
pointed, and edged on the two fides. 
The ftalk is upright, and two feet high. 
The flowers grow at the top in a long, beau- 
tiful {pike ; and are fmall, and of a gold yel- 
low. 
It is found on bogs in fome parts of England, 
but is not common. It flowers in Augutt. 
C. Bauhine calls ic Pfeudo-afphodelus paluftris 
Anglicus. Others, Afphodelus Lancaftria. 
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2. Dwarf Baftard-A{phodell. 
Phalangium minimum. 
The root is compofed of innumerable fibres, 
rifing from a fmall, thick head. 
The leaves are of a dufky green, long, narrow, 
and fharp at the point and edges. 
The ftalk is flender, and eight inches high. 
The flowers ftand at the top in a loofe irregu- 
lar {pike ; and they are fmall, and of a pale yellow. 
It is found on bogs in Scotland, and the north 
of England. It flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Phalanginm Scoticum paluftre mini- 
mum ividis folio. 
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rPHE flowers are collected into a {pike ; and they have no cup. Each is compofed of five petals, 
and fornifhed with a ne¢tarium. Three of the petals ftand outward, and the two others in- 
ward; and thefe two rifing upwards, form a kin 
dof hood. The neétarium is formed into two lips 
and a bafe, and is fixed to the receptacle : it has its place between the petals. The feed-veffel is ob- . 
long, and the feeds are minute. The leaves are oblong, and moderately broad. : 
We have many irregular names in Englifh for the various {pecies of this genus ; but it is more ad- 
vifable to retain the Latin name orchis, which is very familiar, to them all. 
The roots afford no certain character : they are in moft fpecies double and roundith, but in fome 
triple, in others handled, and in fome only fingle. 
It is a very extenfive as well as fingular genus; and, after the general characters here given, we 
hope to explain the differences of the fpecies, without that tedioufnefs and: prolixity. too general in 
the accounts of them in authors. 
Linnus ranges them among the gynandria diandria, the filaments being two, and thefe inferted 
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