SPLATE ‘Vi. 3 
GLADIOLUS ALATUS. 
Wing-flowered Gladiolus. 
is | CLASS Ill. ORDER-I. 
.* TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
: ' GENERIC CHARACTER, 
| . - Caryx. Spathz bivalves. : 
___Coroxta, fexpartita, ringens, Petala oblonga, 
_—* emnia unguibus in tubum conata. 
EmpaLeMEenT. Sheath two valves. 
Biossom, of fix divifions, and gaping. Petals 
oblong, having their claws formed into a 
tube. 
Cuives. Three awl-fhaped threads, fixed into 
: the alternate divifions of the petals. Tips 
ee 
~ Sramina. Filamenta tria, fubulata, divifuris 
co * 8 alternis petalorum inferta. Anthere ob- 
oo gee, oblong. 
es Pistittum. Germen inferum. Stylus fimplex, Poinrat. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple, the 
_ Jongitudine ftaminium. Stigma trifidum, length of the chives. Summit cut into — 
ca three, and concaye. 
_ Pericarrium, Capfula oblonga, obtufa, tri- 
is, trivalvis. three cells, three valves. 
fubrotunda. 
Sreps many, nearly round. 
oe ___ locularis, 
sy plura, 
+ et : 
a SPECIFIC CHARACTER. | 
ladiolus, foliis enfiformibus, coftatis; petalis | Gladiolus, with fword-thape, ribbed leaves; the 
a te lateralibus latiffimis. fide petals of the bloffom the broadeft. 
4 . .. SEE cane 
a ie 
_ . ‘ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
' 1, The two Sheaths of the Empalement, with the Chives, detached from the Petals, as they 
ss ftand in the Bloffom, and apparently attached to each other; with the natural pofition 
i ' the Pointal. ; : 
2. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud; one of the divifions of the Summit magnified. 
eel 
te Tus fpecies of Gladiolus, 
although fo fcarce with us, is certainly one of the moft common found 
ithftanding its extreme beauty, has been overlooked by moft collectors; 
° | bs, in requiring a light loamy earth, and the affiftance of a dry ftove, to 
make it flower well; which it will do by fuch aid, about May, or June; feldom producing feeds, and 
‘Propagating but flowly by the root. From the fugi : 
= — = rank oad although it does not appear amongft the Gladiolus in the Hortus Kewenfis, it 
} a8 well as by Plukenet, in his Phyto-graphia, and others 
- This figure was taken from a plant that flowered at Mefirs. Lee and Ken- 
Srep-vessEL. Capfule oblong, blunt ended, 
gitive character of this plant, it is difficult to afcertain ~ 
