Of the yellowe wilde Ireos / or Flower Deluce. Chap. xli.
❀ The Description.
THe wild yellow Iris or flower Deluce, hath long narrowe flagges or blades, almost lyke to the right Iris or garden flagge, but a great deale longer and narrower very lyke to the blade of a long and narrowe double edged sworde. The stalkes be rounde, smooth, and holow, at the toppe whereof groweth the yellowe flower with the three leaues hanging downe∣wardes, like to ye gardē flower Deluce, & three mounting vpwardes, but they are smaller thē the leaues yt hāg downe∣wardes. Whē they are past there come vp thicke triangled coddes or huskes, in which is conteyned large yellow seede. The roote is thicke & spreadeth here and there, and sometimes it hath other small rootes hanging by it, and many threddy strings, of a fleshly colour within, and of a rough astringent or binding taste.
¶ The Place.
This wilde yellowe Iris groweth in moyst places, and low medowes, and in the borders and brinkes of Riuers, pondes, and lakes: very common in En∣gland, Flaunders, & other Countries.
❀ The Tyme.
This flower Deluce or wilde Iris flowreth in May and Iune.
¶ The Names.
The wilde yellow Iris is nowe called in Latine, Pseudoiris Lutea: and of some Syluestris Iris lutea, it hath bene called in Shoppes, Acoron, and hath ben taken in medicine for the same, not without great errour, losse, and danger of the sicke, as it is of diuers learned men now very wel noted: and for that cause it is also called Pseudoacorus, that is to say, false or bastarde Acorus: in Douch, Geel Schwertel, geel wald Schwertel, & Drakenwurtz: in base Almaigne, Geel wilt Lisch, and Boxe boonen: in French, Glayeul bastarde, & Flambe bastarde: in Englishe, the yellow wilde Iris, the yellow flower Deluce, Wilde flagges, water flagges, and Lauers, or Leuers.
¶ The Nature.
The yellowe bastarde Iris his roote is colde and drie in the thirde degree, & of astringent or binding facultie, lyke to the rootes of Tormentill & Bistorte,
❀ The Vertues.
[ A] The roote of yellowe flower Deluce, or bastarde Iris boyled in water and bronken, stoppeth the bloody flixe, and other fluxes of the belly: and stoppeth