MISCELLANEOUS MATTEE 



BOTANICAL REGISTER. 



1843. 



MONSTRUM PLANTI. Plant's Vegetable Monster, 



" What is this, of which three roots are represented in 

 the vignette ? — In consequence of the statement made by Mr. 

 Plant, nurseryman of Cheadle, (see above Plant's anisanth, 

 1842, fol. 3/.) that he had obtained mules from a Gladiolus 

 by an Amaryllidaceous plant, I was anxious to investigate 

 minutely its correctness. It will be proper to premise, that 

 the mule figured as Plant's anisanth is a true Gladiolus, raised 

 between Glad, splendens (Anisanthus splendens, Sweet Br. 

 Fl. G.) and a hybrid, sold under the name of Col villi, between 

 G. blandus, cardinalis, and tristis. Mr. Sweet improperly 

 made a genus Anisanthus of G. splendens and Cunonius, 

 and another genus of G. abbreviatus, threle species of Gladio- 

 lus, which have the lower lip abbreviated, a feature not more 

 important than the conversion of the three petals into short 

 bristles in Iris setosa. I always considered that something 



.4—1843. b 



