The yellow flag or flower-de-luce, Iris Pseudacorus.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, II. xli. 199. The wilde yellow Iris is nowe called … in Englishe … Wilde flagges, water flagges, and Lauers.
1650. [W. Howe], Phytol. Brit., 2. Yallow water flower-de-luce, water flagges, Seggs.
1808. Scott, Marmion, VI. xxxvii. And shepherd boys repair To seek the water-flag and rush.
1842. Tennyson, Morte d’Arth., 63. The many-knotted waterflags, That whistled stiff and dry about the marge.
1847. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, xxi. A group of reeds and water-flags.
