Between Stourport Bridge and the Lickhill, Worcestershire. Mrs. Gardner, 
in Purt. Mid. FI. — In the Marshes near the banks of the Severn, about Frami- 
lode, Gloucestershire. G.W.Sandys, Esq. Pembroke College. — Near Dept- 
ford, and the Marshes by Blackwall, in great abundance, although very scarce 
in many other parts of Great Britain. Mr. Curtis, in FI. Lond. — In wide 
ditches between Battersea Bridge and Vauxhall. Mr. W. Pamplin, jun. — 
Plastow Marshes, banks of the Thames. J. Bartlett, Esq. — Dykes near the 
Sea, south of Lydd. Near Sandwich, Kent. ltev. G. E. Smith. — In the Peat 
Pits, near Newbury, Berks. Dr. Noeheden, and Mr. Bicheno, in Dr. Mavor’s 
Survey of Berkshire, p. 248. — In Buckinghamshire, on the banks of the Thames. 
Mr. P. B. Ayres. — About Bath. C. C. Babington, in Mag. of Nat. Hist, 
v. i. p. 392. — Grooby Pool, near Leicester. Rev. A. Bloxam, in Mag. Nat. 
Hist. v. iii. p. 167. — In the Chelmer, near Chelmsford, Essex. J. G. in Mag. 
Nat. Hist. v. iv. p. 447. — In Cors ddygai, Anglesea. Welsh Bot. — Duddingston 
Lock, Scotland. Mr. J. Mackay, in Hook. FI. Scot. — Lock of Clunie. Rev. 
Mr. M‘ Ritchie, ibid. — Ditches near the Grand Canal, county of Kildare. 
Banks of the Shannon at Castle-Connel, near Limerick. Near D’Esterre’s 
Bridge, and near Corrofin, in great abundance. Mr. J. T. Mackay, in Catal. 
of Plants of Ireland. 
Perennial. — Flowers in June, July, and August. 
Root white, tuberous, horizontal, and sending down a great num- 
ber of long fibres from the underside. Whole herb smooth, and 
very cellular. Leaves all radical (growing immediately from the' 
root), upright, narrow, quite entire, 3-sided, pointed, and more 
or less spirally twisted at the extremity, 2 or 3 feet high. Stalk 
solitary, taller than the leaves, round, very smooth, and terminating 
in a large umbel of beautiful rose-coloured Jlowers. Flower-stalks 
thread-shaped, unequal, about 4 inches long, with spear-shaped, 
brownish bracteas at their base, and a general three-leaved, mem- 
branous spatha or involucre beneath them. 
This is a stately and beautiful aquatic, and the only plant of the 
class Ennea'ndria that grows wild in the British Isles. It is well 
adapted for ornamenting the margins of fish-ponds, and other 
pieces of water. “ The Water-Gladiole, or Grassie Rush,” says 
Gerarde, “ is, of all others, the fairest and most pleasant to behold, 
and serveth very well for the decking and trimming up of houses, 
because of the beautie and braverie thereof.” — The corolla varies 
in different shades of red, or purple mixed with white : and is some- 
times entirely white. The stem at bottom, and the flower-stalks at 
top, are often tinged with red. The number 3 is evidently pre- 
dominent in the fructification : the corolla being doubly tripetalous ; 
the stamens thrice three; the pistils six; the capsules six, in a 
hexagon form ; and the involucre three-leaved. See Miller's Gard. 
Diet, by Martyn. 
The following Character of the Natural Order Buto'me^ to which our 
present plant belongs, is given by Professor Lindley, in his “Synopsis of 
the British Flora a work which no student of British Botany ought to be 
without. — “ Sepals 3, herbaceous. Petals 3, coloured, petaloid. Stamens 
definite or indefinite, bypogynous (inserted beneath the Germen). Ovaries 
(Germens) superior, 3, 6, or more, either distinct or united into a single mass. 
Stigmas , the same number as the Ovaries, simple. Follicles ( Capsules J roanv- 
seeded, either distinct and rostrate, or united in a single mass. Seeds minu'e, 
very numerous, attached to the whole of the inner surface of the fruit : Albu- 
men none: Embryo with the same direction as the seed. — Aquatic plants. 
Leaves very vascular, often yielding a milky juice, with parallel veins. Flowers 
in umbels, conspicuous, purple, or yellow.” — The only Genera in this order are, 
Butomus, Limnocharis, and Hydrocleys : the two last are not British. 
