Chap. XX FLORA 
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CHAP, xX, 
Gladiolus. 
7 Orn-Flag, and the varieties thereof are of no great 
Zii efteem, yet becaufe they come ina feafon when there 
are not many other flowers, the three following 
kindes may be admitted into the Flower-garden, 
Gladiolus Byzantinus. 
te Corn- flag of Con ftantinople rifeth up with three or four broad 
and tiff green leaves, fullof ribs, one coming out by the 
fide of the other, and joyned at the bottom; the ftalk rifech from 
among the leaves, bearing many flowers one above another, ftanding 
all one way like thofe of Fox-gloves , which in this kinde are larger 
than in any of the other forts, and of a deep red colour, with two 
white {pots within the mouth of every flower ; the root is round flat 
and netted over,apt to give many off-fers if it ftand long unremoved. 
Gladialus flore fuave rubente, 
Tr He Corn flag with a bright red flower, hath green leaves almoft as 
broad and long as the former, but of ablewer green colour,the 
flowers differ onely in the colour, which in this are of an excellent fine 
bright red or carnation colour, and almoft as large as chofe of the 
Byzantines - 
Gladiolus flore albo. 
T*% Corn flag with white flowers is leffer in all the parts chereof than 
A the la&@ detcribed, the leaves are of afrether green colour , the 
roots whiter,and the flowers {fnow-white, 
There are three other morecommon varieties ; which are called 
French Corn-flags, two that bear red flowers, theone a little bigger 
than the other, arid one that is Ath-colour ;. and we have anorher 
called the sralian Corn-flag, that: bearech flowers like the common 
red French Corn-flag, but that they are ot a fadder red colour; and 
grow on both fides the fall. 
They flower in Fune and beginning of F uly ; the Byzantine is 4B 
lateft, and che common kittds are the firft. a . 
The roots yearly lofe their fibres, and as foon as the flalks are 
dry, may be taken upand kept out of ground, untill che cime of fet- 
