Hammerfmith. Flowers about the fame time as Gladiolus 

 trifitSy or rather earlier, about the beginning of April. Is per- 

 ^feftly fcentlefs. The leed-veffel precifely that of Gladiolus 

 trijlis. Eafily propagated by offsets, but is (till rare. 



JBurman's defcription is more vague and brief than we could 

 have wifhed, yet there can be little doubt of his defigningour 

 plant, when all the circumftances are taken together, fuch as 

 the name, and its ftation in his lift, where it {lands immediately 

 after Antholyza athiopica and cutwnia, L. to both of which 

 it has a very confiderable refemblance. According to him, 

 it flowered in Holland in 1760, and grew two cubits high. G. 



