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The leaves are Ihort, fharp-pointed, edged on 
both fides, and of a pale green, with a tinge of 
greyifh. 
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 palujlris pallida. 
3. Stinking Flag-flower, called Gladden, 
ins fcetida Xyris diifa. 
" The root is thick, and fprcads under the fur- 
face. 
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 greyifh 
difagreeable colour. 
The leaves, when bruifed, have a ftrong, un- 
pleafant fmcU. 
It is common in damp places, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Gladiolus fatidns. Others^ 
XyriSy Iris ftstida, and Spatula fatida. Our 
people. Stinking Chddon. 
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 fiiarp-pointed. 
The ftalk is two feet and a half high, and at 
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FOREIGN SPECIES. 
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 Augufl. 
C. Bauhine calls it Jris cecrulea vulgaris. 
The juice of the root exprefled, with white 
wine, is a rough purge, but excellent in dropfies- 
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BASTARD-ASPHODEL L. 
FHALANGIUM. 
IT^HE root confifts of numerous implicated fibres, rifing from a fliort, thick head. The leaves 
are grafly. The flowers are formed each of a fingle petal, divided into fix unequal ftarry feg- 
ments. The feed-vefTel is three-cornered. 
LinncEus places this among the hexandria, the threads in the flower being fix. 
I. Lancafliire Bafliard Afphodell. 
Phalangium iridis folio majus. 
The root has many thick, brown fibres. 
The leaves are long, of a bluilh green, Iharp- 
pointed, and edged on the two fides. 
The ftaik is upright, and two feet high. 
The flowers grow at the top in a long, beau- 
tiful fpike i and are fmall, and of a gold yel- 
low. 
It is found on bogs in fome parts of England, 
but is not common. It fiowers in Augufl:. 
C. Bauhine calls it Pfeudo-afphodelus palujiris 
AngUcus. Others, Jfphodelus Lancajlri^. 
i. Dwarf Baftard-Afphodell; 
Phalangium minimum. 
The root is compofed of innumerable fibres, 
rifing from a fmall, thick head. 
The leaves are of a dufl<y green, long, narrow, 
and fliarp at the point and edges. 
The fl:alk is flender, and eight inches high. 
The flowers ftand at the top in a loofe irregu- 
lar fpike i 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 Phalangium Scoticum palujlre mini- 
mum iridis folio. 
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ORCHIS. 
III. 
'TTHE flowers are collected into a fpike ; and they have no cup. Each is compofed of five petals, 
and furnifhcd with a neflarium. Three of the petals ftand outward, and the two others in- 
ward and thefe two rifing upwards, form a kind of hood. The netftariiim is formed into two lips 
and a bafe, and is fixed to the receptacle : it has its place between the petals. The feed-veflel is ob- 
Jong, and the feeds are minute. The leaves are oblong, and moderately broad. 
Wc have many irregular names in Englifli for the various fpecies of this genus j but it is more ad- 
vifable to retain the Latin name orchis^ which is very familiar, to them all. 
The roots afford, no certain charadler : they are in moft fpecies double and roundifti, but in fome 
triple, in others handled, and in fome only fingle. 
Ic is a very extcnfive as well as fingular genus ; and, after the general charaflers 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. 
Linnaeus ranges them among the gynandria- diandria ; the filaments being two, and thefe inferted 
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