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Gladiolus Byzantinus. Turkish Corn- 

 Flag. 



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Clafs and Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. — Vid. N os - 538 & 562. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



GLADIOLUS byzantinus fpica multrflora, parum flexuofa j 

 corollis adfcendenter nutantibus, gemino atque 

 divergenter-difticho ordine difpofitis ; lacinia 

 fuprema Iateralibus conclufa; Iateralibus infe- 

 rioribus caeteris duplo minoribus; filamentis 

 antheris brevioribus. G. 



GLADIOLUS byzantinus. Greater Corn-Flag of Byzantium. 

 Mill. Dicl. 3. ed. 8. 



GLADIOLUS communis (<?.) Conftantinopolitan Corn-Flag. 

 Mart. Mill. Dicl. 



GLADIOLUS major byzantinus. Bauh. Pin. 41. 



GLADIOLUS byzantinus atro-purpureus. Swert. Floril. tab. 

 42./ 1. 



GLADIOLUS byzantinus. Corne Flagge of Conftantinople. 

 Park. Parad. 189. tab. 191. fig. 3. 



This and Gladiolus Jegetum (fupra 719) haveufually been 

 accounted varieties of Gladiolus communis (fupra 86) but, 

 as appears to us, more from remiflhefs m the obfervers, than 

 from want of diftinctive marks ; this a comparifon of their fpe- 

 cific characters will fhew, for which purpofe we have fubjoined 

 a reformed one of communis. 



The prefent fpecies has by far the largeft and moft orna- 

 mental corollas of the three ; is a fomewhat earlier blower than 

 communis, fomewhat fliorter, but more robuft, and never feeds 



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