By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 



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Br. R, C. Prior. « Woods at Rndlow and Box," Mr. C. E. Broome. 



5. North-east District. In the Beech Woods on Roundway Hill. 

 " Roundhill Copse/'' Flor. Marlb. Not common in Wilts. Stem a 

 foot or more high. Flowers remote, racemouse, quite erect ; sepals 

 all nearly equal, large, oblong-ovate, obtuse, cream coloured, concave, 

 including the small lip, which is also white, but yellowish within. 



[C. ensifolia, (Rich.) sword or narrow-leaved white Helleborine, 

 Engl, Bot. t. 494, has been observed by the Rev. E. Simms. at 

 Whiteparish Hill, (South-east District.) I have not seen any ex- 

 amples.] 



ORDER. IRIDACEiE. (JUSS.) 

 Iris, (Linn.) Flag. 

 Linn. CI. iii. Ord. i. 

 Name. L'is is Greek for a rainbow ; and applied to the plant in 

 reference to the brilliancy of its colours, and the graceful curve of 

 its petals. 



1. I. Pseud-acorus, (Linn.) Yellow water Iris, or Yellow Flag. 

 Pseud-acorus, from pseudos, false, and alcoros, in allusion to its re- 

 sembling the Acorns calamus in leaf, though not in flower. Engl. 

 Bot. t. 578. 



Locality. In wet meadows and ditches, and on the margins of 

 pools; also by the sides of the Avon. P. Fl. June, July. Area, 1. 

 2. 3. 4. 5. In all the Districts not uncommon. Floivers upright, 

 showy of a yellow colour, the three outer and larger petals, reflexed, 

 their disk pencilled with dark purple. The stigma of this plant in 

 particular deserves to be noticed by the student, being in form and 

 substance more like the petals than the part it really is. 1 



2. I. faitidissima, (Linn.) stinking Iris. Gladdon. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 596. Reich Icones, ix. 347. 



Locality. Copses and bushy places, chiefly on chalk ; not common. 

 P. Fl. May, July. Area, 1. * * 4. 5. 



South Division. 



1. South-east District. " Between Salisbury and Whiteparish/' 



1 A very curious account of the agency of insects in promoting the fertilization 

 of the different species of Iris may be seen in that very entertaining and in- 

 structive work u Kirby and Speuoe's Introduction to Entomology," — vol. i. p. 

 293, and in " Dr. Withering's Bot. Arr.,"— vol. ii. p. 96. 



