GLADIOLUS. ROM ULEA. 409 



narrow and long. /3. /. acoriformis (Bor.) ; outer perianth- 

 segm. with deeper blotch at the base, the blade euborbicular and 

 claw long narrowish yellow with prominent purplish veins. 

 Yellow of fl. paler than in a. Wet places. P. VI. VII. 

 Yellow Flag. E. S. I. 



2. I.fcetidis'sima (L.) ; 1. swordshaped, st. compressed, peri- 

 anth beardless its inner segments about equalling the stigmas. 

 E. B. 596. R. ix. 347. Herb green, not glaucous, yielding au 

 unpleasant smell when bruised. St. 1-angled, 2 ft. high, FL 

 lead-coloured or bluish, rarely [var. citrina Bromf.] yellow, 

 seeds red. Woods and thickets. P. V. YII. Gladden.. E.I. 



[*Z tuberosa (L.) ; 1. tetragonal, segments of the perianth 

 acute, root tuberous. Penzance. Cork. E. B. S. 2818.] E. I. 



[J. spuria (L.) ; with linear 1., limb of outer per.-segm. roundish, inner 

 segm. and stig. violet, and conspicuous!}' apiculate carp., is apparently 

 established in marshes at Huttoft, Line.] 



3. GLA'DIOLUS Linn. 



1. G. illyr'icus (Koch); corm clothed with nearly parallel fibres 

 netted above with long narrow openings, fl. secund, filaments 

 longer than the anthers, cor. -tube nearly thrice as long as germen, 

 caps, oval emarginate with 3 rounded angles. Sy. E. B. 1493. 

 J. of B. i. t. 4. St. 83. 3. Height about 20 in. Corms ovate- 

 acuminate. L. slender, swordshaped. Sheaths 2-edged. Fl. - 

 reddish changing to bluish ; basal pet. rather acute, exceeding 

 the blunt lower lateral pet. ; " edges of upper pet. not covered 

 by the 2 adjoining ones " when the fl. are in their prime. Stigm. 

 narrow below widening from the middle upwards and there 

 fringed. Amongst Pteris in the New Forest. Isle of Wight. 

 Mr. A. G. More. P. VII. E. 



4. HOM'ULEA Mar. 



1. R. ColumncB (Seb. & Maur) ; scape 1-flowered usually 

 solitary slightly nodding, 1. filiform compressed furrowed 

 recurved, spath exceeding the tube of the cor., style falling 

 short of the stam., stigmas bifid. E. B. 2549. It. ix. 54. 

 Trichonema Bulbocodiwn Sm. A small plant not more than 

 4 in. high, with a corm. Fl. greenish without, pale with 

 purple stripes and yellow at the base within. Sandy places. 

 Dawlish Warren, Devon. Jersey and Guernsey. P. III. 

 IV. E. 



