[ os : 
Graprotus VIPERATUS. PeRFUMED 
si ORE FLAG, 
ey 
ee 
i adaaiaaaad FE er 
Clafs and Order, 
: Trianpaia Mongoxsnne aM 
“Generic Charatrer—Vide a a8 io s Io bas 
«Specific Charatler and Synonyms. — selos 
GLADIOLUS eipthalus. ae Pie Bas ; Tpatha 
~ faucem recurvato-turbinatam {upetante 5 fum- 
ma Jacinia {patulato-ligulata, galeatim, incur- 
vata, lateralium laminis rhombeo-ovatis, in« 
..... fimarum imis marginibus apophyfe pellucenti- : 
glandulofa et tuberculata adauttis, .G. 
GLADIOLUS alatus. Thunb. Diff. var. 2.115. Pp: 16. ‘wheg. 
, dc. rar. 2, 1.259. Coll. 4. 165. Willd, Sp. Pl. 
S25. -¥. 216. (attamen non Linn, vel Amen. Acad. 
circa quem vid. fupra 586.) 
GLADIOLUS orchidiflorus. Bot. Rep. tab. 241. 
SISYRINCHIUM viperatum. Pluk. es 224. f. 8? 
i 
Root-leaves 6—8 or more, lincar-enfiform, far acuminate, 
downwards imbricately equitant, far fheathing, thickifh, 
glaucous, with a prominent midrib; cauline 1—2; ftem 
round, glaucous, 1—2 feet high; Rachis flexuofe, diltich, 
-purplith ; 3 fpathes convolute-lanceolate, herbaceous, glaucous, 
ftriated, outer valves rather the longeft and continuing beyond 
the faux ; Corolla downwards turbinate, upwards ringent, three 
outer fegments acute, inner obtufe; tube and Sik narrows 
turbinate, recurved, equal to the lower fegments; upper feg- 
ment rather the longeft, remote, forming a kind of lip, helmet- _ 
wife arched, ‘fpatulate-ligulate, convolute-concave; its fide _ 
— Ones rather the fhorter of the fix, rhomb-ovate, acute, oppofite, | 
psecurred: pee with Sones narrow: gn ‘lowe. 
