PEALE <V. 
GLADIOLUS LONGIFLORUS. 
| Long-flowered Gladiolus. 
CLASS IIL. 
ORDER I. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
Caryx. Spathz bivalves. 
Corouta, fexpartita, ringens. Petala oblonga, 
omnia unguibus in tubum conata. 
Stamina. Filamenta tria, fubulata, divifuris 
alternis petalorum inferta. Anthere ob- 
longe. : 
Pistittum. Germen inferum. Stylus fimplex, 
longitudine flaminium. Stigma trifidum, 
PERICARPIUM. Capfula oblonga, obtufa, tri- 
] is, trivalvis. 
Semin plura, fubrotunda. 
SPECIFIC 
Gladiolus, foliis enfiformibus, plicatis, villofis; | 
corollis tubiformibus, longiffimis; petalis 
und i, is, 3 fl « i 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
EmpaLement. Sheath two valves. F 
Bossom, cut into fix fegments, and gaping. 
Petals oblong, having all their claws con- 
netted into a tube. 
_ Cutves. Three threads, awl-fhaped, fixed into 
each alternate divifion of the petals. Tips — 
oblong. 
Pointax. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple, the 
‘length of the chives. Summit divided in 
ree, and concave. 
SeEp-vEssex. Capfule oblong, obtufe, three 
cells, three valves, 
Szeps many, nearly round. 
CHARACTER. 
| Gladiolus, with fword-fhaped, plated, hairy 
leaves; bloffoms trumpet-fhaped, and very 
long; petals waved, and bent back. 
| REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. . 
1. A Bloffom cat open, to thew the fituation, and infertion of the Threads; the Threads, and 
Tips, remaining attached, 
2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and its Summit, 
Tas {pecies of Gladiolus, (a 
of Hammerfmith. Like moft bulbs, it has its period of 
Mmoifture, but whilft growing, requires abundance; — 
eeds. It thould be treated as a greenhoufe plant, 
¢ ~tocus, the old root perifhing, a number of freth ones 
ry) be kept out of the ground two or three months. 
