ribsaper Frost 
GiapioLus Warsonius. - Watson’s-> 
CORNER LACH ds «tact ods tc. 
LE ee 
: ale sond Orders. : 
_ Trianpria MonoGyNia. 
Generic Charader.> 
Cor. 6-partita, tubulofa, ringens. Samia adfcendentia. — 
Specific Character and. Synonyns “ey 
GLADIOLUS Wat/onius corollis infundibuliformibus, limbi 
laciniis fubzqualibus, foliis linearibus ad oras 
revolutis. Facq. Icon. rar. 2. t. 233. Colle. 3. 
p- 257. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Wilden. p. 214. 
GLADIOLUS Wat/onius monoftachyus corollis cernuis, tubo 
duplici, limbi laciniis oblongis, foliis linearibus 
glabris. Thund. Prod. p. 8. 
Profeffors Jacguin and Tuunzerc have both defcribed 
this rare bulbous plant, a native of the Cape, and newly intro- 
duced to this country from Holland among a great variety © 
of others: it feems highly probable that the defcriptions of 
both thefe authors were taken from dried fpecimens, fince they 
accord fo little with the living plant as it flowers with us. 
At firft fight, one would be led to regard this plant as an 
Antholyza rather than a Gladiolus, its flowers bearing a great af- 
finity to thofe of the Antholyza Meriana, which differs widely 
from thofe of the Gladiolus commuzis: Prof. Tuunsene having 
thought fit to make a Gladiolus of that plant, he could do no 
lefs =e regard this as a G/adiolus alfo ; we regret that the in- 
finite variety to which all the produ€tions of nature are fub- — 
je& fhould give occafion to verfatile minds perpetually to 
alter genera, often without due confideration. This {pecies 
flowers in February and March, requires the fame treatment 
as other Cape bulbs, and is propagated in the fame manner. 
_ _ Descr. Stalk from twelve to eighteen inches high, up-— 
right, fmooth; Leaves about three or four, the lowermoft a 
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