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tifh-leav’d Water Flower-deluce. By the river-fide, 
between Hartford and Welling, 
^. Iris fyh'ejiris quam Xyrim vacant,, R. 375. Xy^ 
TtSy G. 53. Xyris feu fpatula feetida,, P. 256. Gla^ 
diolus foetidiis,, C. 30. Stinking Gladden, or Glad- 
win. Common in Charlton,, all about Sandgate callle. 
The leaves are of a dark fhining green colour, and 
of a ftinking fmell, when bruifed. It feldom 
flowers. 
The roots of Water Flower-deluce are reftringent, drying and 
binding, and uiefiil in fluxes of all forts ; fome commend it as a 
firengUmer of the brain and nerves. It is but feidom ufed. 
Phalangium. It has a Lilly-fiower, compofed of 
fix petals; from whole center rifes the flyle, 
which becomes a roundilh fruit, divided into 
three cells, and full of angular feeds. The root 
is fibrous. The ipecies are : 
1. Fhalangiuni Anglknm paluftre Iridis folio ^ R. 
375 - f dujiris Anglicus,, C. 29. Afphodelus Lanca- 
ftri^ vmu,, G. E. 97. ' Lancalhire Afphodel, or 
BafLtrd Afphodel. On a bog on Putney heath. It 
grows plendfully on mofi: of the marihy and boggy 
ground in Wefimor eland -f . The leaves are about three 
inches long, broadeil at the bottoms, and taper to a 
point : The ftalk feldom rifes a foot high, and bears 
a thyrfe of beautiful yellow ftar-lafliion’d fl owners. 
The feed-vefiels are longifh. 
2. Phalangium Scoticum paluftre minimum Iridis 
folio,, R. 37,5. The Leaft Scots Afphodel. On the 
fide of a litde brook near Berwick, in Scotland, The 
feed-velTels of tliis are fhort and roundilh. 
Such plants as referable bulbous rooted plants. 
Orchis. It hath flefhy tuberous roots ; fometimes 
round like teflicles, fometimes flat and palmated : 
The leaves are Ample, and refemble thole of 
Lillies : The flower fcands on the top of the o- 
vaiy, is anomalous, and confilts of fix diilimilar pe- 
