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ramosus. [Not at present included in genus Gladiolus. Is Melasphaerida 



graminea.] 

 capitatus. [Not at present included in genus Gladiolus. Is Aristea capitata.] 



The second edition (1762) includes in addition to the above: 



alatus. 4. Gladiolus foliis ensiformibus, petalis lateralibus latissimis. Amen, 



acad. 6 afric 2* 



Sisyrinchium \'iperarum. Pluk. phyt. 224. /. 8. 



Habitat ad Cap. b. spei. 

 plicattis. (Now included in genus Babiana as B. stricta.] 



tristis. 6. Gladiolus foliis lineari-cruciatis, corollis campanulatis. 



Gladiolus bifolius & biflorus, foliis quadrangulis. Trnu. ehret. t. 39. 



Habitat in .Ethiopia. 



alopecuroides. [Now known as Watsonia plantnginea.] 



In the I^ncyclopedie Botanique (Lamarck, 1786) twenty-six species are 

 described, but in addition to the species of Linnaeus only the following are 

 now recognized: G. biniacidatus [=involutus\\ G. ptmiceus [=viUosus(})]; 

 G. luteus Lam.; G. montainis Linn; and 6". recurvus. The other species are 

 now included in Babiana, Ixia. Lapeyrousia. Melasphaeruia, and Watsonia. 



John Bellenden Gawler (who later changed his name to Ker, also given 

 in the bibliography) was the most prominent investigator working on 

 the order Iridaceae during the first thirty or forty years of the nineteenth 

 century. He pubHshed (Gawler, 1805) a complete synopsis of all the 

 twenty-six genera, with a list of the two hundred and twentv-five species 

 then known. In this paper many genera now recognized were for the 

 first time named and fully characterized. Among these are Anomatheca, 

 Aristea, Babiana, Geissorhiza, Hesperantha, Marica, Alelasphaerula. 

 JVIorphixia, Pardanthus, Sparaxis, and Tritonia. The following list of 

 species of Gladiolus is given :^ 



Cunonia (Antholyza) B. M. t. 343. 

 Watsonius, B. M. t. 450. 



Quadrangularis, B. ^I. t. 567 [Baker places this in Antholyza]. 

 Namaquensis, B. M. t. 592 [Baker gives this as a variety of G. alatus]. 

 Alatus, B. M. t. 586. 



Viridis, Hort. Kew. 3 p. 481 [Ker later places this in Tritonia]. 

 Viperatus, B. M. t. 688 [Baker gives this as a synonym of G. orchidiflorus Andr.]. 

 Permeabilis, De la Roche Diss. 27. 



Versicolor, B. M. t. 556 [Baker places this under G. grandis Thunb.]. 

 Tristis, B. AI. t. 272. 

 Hyalinus, Jacq. Ic. var. 2. t. 242. 

 Tenellus, Jacq. Ic. var. 2. t. 248. coll. 4. t. 3. f. i. 

 Setifolius, Thunb. Diss, de Glad. 18. 

 Gracilis, B. M. t. 562. 



Carinatus, B. M. t. 578 [Baker places this under G. recurvus Linn.]. 

 Hirsutus [B. M. plates cited are not figures of this species]. 



Flexuosus, Thunb. Diss, de Glad. t. i. f. i [Baker places this species in the genus 

 Acidanthera]. 



^ Citations to plates that were not later confirmed by Baker have been omitted, so that persons 

 desiring to look up the species of Gladiolus known one hundred years ago may do so without error. The 

 comments in brackets after some of the species, e.xcept in the first case, were added by the writer from 

 an examination of later works on the subject. 



