TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Iris. 11 



FE'DIA'. Corn Salad. 



F. oUtoria. Common Corn Salad, or LamFs hettuce. 



Leaves linear-tongue-shaped, blunt. Flowers growing 



in heads. Caps, swollen, two lobed. V. Locusta. 



E. B. 811. C. 5. 4. Lactuca agnina. G. E. 310. 



1. 2. 

 Cornfields. 

 An. April. 

 Stem forked, twice, or thrice. FL in little heads, small, pale-blue, 



or flesh-coloured. 



Eaten in spring as salad. 



F. dentdta. Oval fruited C. S. Leaves linear-tongue- 

 shaped. Flowers with one solitary in the forks of the 

 stem. Capsule egg-shaped, ribbed. Crown erect. 

 E. B. 1370. 



Fields. * By the road side between Shotover Hill, and BuUingdon 



Green. T. 

 An. April, June. 

 Ls. narrow. FL small, purplish. CaL unequal, 



CROCUS. Crocus. 



(C. nudiflorus. Naked -flowering Gr. Stigma within 

 the flower, in three deeply-jagged tufted segments. 

 Flower without leaves. E. B. 491. C. montanus 

 autumnalis. G. E. 154. f. 6. 



Sandy, inundated meadoivs. * Pigwell Fields, and Lammas Fields. 



Pn. 

 Per. October. 

 FL tube one foot long. Stig. yellow. Ls. flattish.) 



IRIS *. Iris, or Flower-de-luce. 



I. Pseud-dcorus. Yellow TVater Iris. Corolla beard- 

 less ; inner segments smaller than the stigmas. Leaves 

 sword-shaped. Seeds angular. E. B. 578. C. 3. 4. 

 Iris palustris lutea. G. E. 50. 



Banks of rivers, wet ditches. 



Per. June. 



FL large, bright yellow, disk of the larger segments, pencilled, as it 



were, with dark purple. 



Juice of the fresh root very acrid, purgative ; in some cases, 

 proves diuretic ; too uncertain in its effects to come into general 

 use. 



' From fedus, syn, with hoedus. a kid. Sin. " Gr. From its hues. 



