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Gladiolus Recurvus. Violet-Scented 



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C/<2/> jW Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic *Characler. — Fid. No. 569. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



GLADIOLUS recurvus ; foliis linearibus, planis : nervo 

 utrinque prominente, corolla campanulato- 

 ringente Iateraliter compreffula: laciniis ex- 

 timis lanceolatis recurvis : lateralibus infimis 

 fubcuneatis. G. 



GLADIOLUS recurvus. Linn. Mant. 28. Reich. 1. 101. 

 Syji. Vegetab. Murr. 86. GmeL Syjl. Nat. no. 

 Willd. Sp. PL 1. 208. Nee vero Thunb. aut 

 Linn. fil. 



GLADIOLUS carinatus. Hort. Kew. 1. 64. GmeL S\Jl. Nat. 

 7. 111. mild. Sp. PL 1. 211. 



GLADIOLUS punclatus. Jaca.ic. rar. 2. t. 247. Coll. 4. p. 



GLADIOLUS triftts. (Var. y.) punclatus odorus. Tbunb. Dijjf. 



r de Glad. 12. 



GLADIOLUS foliis linearibus fulcatis, floribus uno verfudif- 



pofitis tubo floris longiore. Mill, ic 157. t. 

 r 235. fig. 2. 



GLADIOLUS alaius. Schneev. & Geuns. tab. 12. Ujl ann. 

 r Bot. St. 6. p. 98. 



J'LADIOLUS 0^r*.f. Salifi. prod. Hort. 40. 

 GLADIOLUS ringens. Bot. Rep. tab. 27. iteritm tab. 227. 



<?/#j RecenJ. Gladiolus carinatus. 



Root-fheath glofly like porcelane, colour a white ground 

 dutifully mottled with purplifh brown. Leaves 3, outer one 

 nearly the height of the ftem, inner far fheathing, upper cau- 

 jne and fpathaceous. Sometimes the leaves are fcarcely half 

 "e length of the ftem, as in Jacquin's figure. Stem 1—3 

 ^ et high, (lender, upright. Flowers 2—5, produced about 

 ' P ri 'i fmelling very powerfully like violets or orris-root. 



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