jterus, No. 845) and nudifiorus. We have to thank Mr. 

 Haworth for the fpecimen from which our drawing was 

 taken ; we faw others in the nurfery of Meffrs. Gibbs and Co. 

 at Old-Brompton. G. 



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GLADIOLUS imbricatus. Linn. Sp. PI. edt. 1. v. 1. />. 37* 

 edit, 2. v, l. p. 52. Syfl. Peg, Mum ed. 14. 

 86. (jcorgi. bcjihr. des rujj. rcithf. v. 4. pars 3. 

 p. 668. IVilid, Sp. PL 1. 212. Fab/. Enum. 

 v. 2. p. 79. n. 4. 



From very peffeQ fpecimens in Mr. Lambert's Pallafian 

 Herbarium we 6»d, that the above plant is the fame fpecies 

 with thtfegetum of the prefent work ; (fee No. 719 and 992 /» 

 Spec. Ejium. pag. alt.). V fies, as ufual with its congeners, 

 corni'ier-ibi, in Cze hu'rrVber ar.d clofenefs of the flowers ; 

 which a:e from fcarcely Que to more than two inches long. 

 Taken up by Likn.eus in the fnft edition of his Species 

 Plantarum, where it follows communis ; from which he dip 

 tinguifhes it by clofer or imbricate flowers. SufpeHing that it 

 did net really differ from fegetu,;^ we had omitted it in our 

 enumetz.tion of the fpecies in No. 992. In fome refpefts the 

 fpecies has a nearer c'ln.iy to Amtholyza than to Gla- 

 diolus, efpecially by the globular feeds, where the albumen 

 fills the entire cavity of the ttfia ; as well as by the two 

 remarkable feneftrate interitices between the ungues of the 

 two upper lateral and the upper central fegments of the 

 Corolla. Found by Pallas in Georgia and ieveral diftri&s 

 of Southern Rufiia along with communis; by Sibthorpe . m 

 Greece. Should now be added to fe get urn as a lynonym; or 

 imbrkalui retained for the name of the fpecies, and that ot 

 fcgcum laid aiide. It might peihaps more properly be placed 

 under Antholyza, next to montana. G. 



