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Iris versicolor (Purple flag)
Rowan McOnegal- Ephemera
The Cadets of Temperance of the Order of the Sons of Temperance Friendly Society : keep the flag flying / Cadets of Temperance.
Sons of Temperance Friendly Society (Great Britain). Cadets of Temperance.Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]- Digital Images
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Iris graminea L. Iridaceae Grass-leaved flag. Flower de Luce. Distribution: Central and Southern Europe. This is probably the Iris bulbosa minor sive angustifolia [the lesser bulbed or narrow-leaved Iris], Lesser bulbed Flower de luce of Parkinson (1640). He advised that the properties of all Flag Irises were more or less the same, but says there is no agreement about the properties of the bulbous kinds (such as this plant). Of the Flag Irises, Culpeper (1650) writes that the roots 'resist poison, help shortness of the breath, prove the terms [menstruation]
Dr Henry Oakeley