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in Camhridgejhire. The leaves are cut into narrovp 
fegments. It only differs from the garden one, in 
being fmaller, and lefs beautiful. 
Butomus, Flowering Rufh. It has graffy trian- 
gular leaves : The flowers grow in umbels upon 
the tops of the ftalks, confiding of fix petals, 
three larger, alternately fet, with three fmaller, 
having nine chives, but no empalement: The 
ovary becomes a fruit, raifed with fix ribs, ter- 
minated by as many points, and divided into the 
fame number of cells, Note^ The flower may 
be faid to be compofed of three petals, with a 
three-leav’d empalement. We have but one 
fpecies of this plant, viz. 
Butomus.^ R. 273. Juncus floridus., P. 1197. 
ridus major., C. 12. Gladiolus paluftris Cordi^ G, 
The Flowering Rufh, or Water Gladiole. 
I c L A s s XV, 
I Herbs whh monofetalous flowers., and dry 
fruit. RayT Syno^. p. 274. 
P lants of this kind have monopetalous flowers, 
either uniform or difforrn •, and, after each flower,, 
a peculiar feed-veflTei, befides the empalement, often 
divided into diftindt cells. They are of two forts, viz. 
I. Such as as have regular flowers ; and thofe 
’ are divided into three kinds : 17?, Such as have their 
I flowers entiro, or but lightly cut in the edges ; 2^, 
Such as have them cut fo deep into four fegments, 
that they appear to be tetrapetalcus ; and 3 7 , Such, 
; whofe flowers are defedled in fuch a marjier, that 
they feem pentapctalous. Thefe laft are again fub- 
divided ; Into fuch as have unicapfular ; 2^, 
Bicapfular ; and 3 7 , T hofe wno have their feed-vef- 
fels divided into a great many cells. 
II. Such as have irregular flowers. 
I. Such 
